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On 12/02/2011 7:51 AM, Rini Gupta wrote:
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cite="mid:20110211205139.23050.qmail@f4mail200.rediffmail.com"
type="cite">Dear gmx users,<br>
<br>
I am using gromacs (version 4.0.7) <br>
to setup a 2-butoxyethanol-water simulation.<br>
I created topology and coordinate file (.pdb) for BE using
AUTOMATED TOPOLOGY BUILDER server.<br>
It created a topology file (for united atom) compatible with
GROMOS ffG53a6 forcefield.<br>
I want to generate a box containing 20 BE and 480 water molecules
using<br>
genbox but it fails to do so. It generates a box only with 1 BE
instead of 20 but successfully adding requested no. of water
molecules. <br>
<br>
I used the following command:<br>
<br>
<br>
genbox_d_mpi -cp conf.gro -cs spc216.gro -p topol.top -box 2.7 2.7
2.7 -ci conf.gro -nmol 19 -maxsol 480 -o out.gro<br>
<br>
Then I got the mesaage:<br>
<br>
Reading solute configuration<br>
UNITED ATOM STRUCTURE FOR MOLECULE<br>
Containing 9 atoms in 1 residues<br>
Initialising van der waals distances...<br>
Reading molecule configuration <br>
UNITED ATOM STRUCTURE FOR MOLECULE<br>
Containing 9 atoms in 1 residue<br>
Initialising van der waals distances...<br>
Try 5699<br>
Added 0 molecules (out of 19 requested) of G2<br>
Reading solvent configuration<br>
"216H2O,WATJP01,SPC216,SPC-MODEL,300K,BOX(M)=1.86206NM,WFVG,MAR.
1984"<br>
solvent configuration contains 648 atoms in 216 residues<br>
<br>
Initialising van der waals distances...<br>
Will generate new solvent configuration of 2x2x2 boxes<br>
Generating configuration<br>
Sorting configuration<br>
Found 1 molecule type:<br>
SOL ( 3 atoms): 1728 residues<br>
Calculating Overlap...<br>
box_margin = 0.315<br>
Removed 1992 atoms that were outside the box<br>
Neighborsearching with a cut-off of 0.45<br>
Table routines are used for coulomb: FALSE<br>
Table routines are used for vdw: FALSE<br>
Cut-off's: NS: 0.45 Coulomb: 0.45 LJ: 0.45<br>
System total charge: 0.000<br>
Grid: 8 x 8 x 8 cells<br>
Succesfully made neighbourlist<br>
nri = 10648, nrj = 270745<br>
Checking Protein-Solvent overlap: tested 509 pairs, removed 72
atoms.<br>
Checking Solvent-Solvent overlap: tested 39413 pairs, removed 738
atoms.<br>
Added 480 molecules<br>
Generated solvent containing 1440 atoms in 480 residues<br>
Writing generated configuration to out.gro<br>
<br>
<br>
While searching through mailing list I tried to do this in two
separate steps i.e. but using -ci -nmol option and then solvating
the box using -cs spc216.gro, but problem remain the same.<br>
I also tried increasing -try option and increasing the box size
but still it is creating box with only one solute BE instead od
20.<br>
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<br>
You're definitely trying to do too many things in one operation. I
suggest<br>
<br>
1. Use editconf to define a suitably big box around a single BE
molecule.<br>
<br>
2. Use genbox -ci -nmol 19<br>
<br>
3. Use genbox -cs -cp<br>
<br>
Or use genconf -shuffle to replace 1 and 2 (but this is less random)<br>
<br>
Mark<br>
<br>
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cite="mid:20110211205139.23050.qmail@f4mail200.rediffmail.com"
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Can anyone please tell me what I am doing wrong here.<br>
<br>
I using following topology file:<br>
<br>
[ moleculetype ]<br>
; Name nrexcl<br>
G269 3<br>
[ atoms ]<br>
; nr type resnr resid atom cgnr charge mass total_charge<br>
1 OE 1 G2 OE 1 -0.345 15.9994<br>
2 CH2 1 G2 C 1 0.151 14.0270<br>
3 CH2 1 G2 C 1 0.194 14.0270 ; 0.000<br>
4 CH2 1 G2 C 2 0.231 14.0270<br>
5 OA 1 G2 O 2 -0.617 15.9994<br>
6 H 1 G2 H 2 0.386 1.0080 ; 0.000<br>
7 CH2 1 G2 C 3 -0.035 14.0270<br>
8 CH2 1 G2 C 3 0.143 14.0270<br>
9 CH3 1 G2 CA 3 -0.108 15.0350 ; -0.000<br>
; total charge of the molecule: 0.000<br>
[ bonds ]<br>
; ai aj funct c0 c1<br>
1 2 2 0.1430 8.1800e+06<br>
1 3 2 0.1430 8.1800e+06<br>
2 4 2 0.1520 5.4300e+06<br>
3 7 2 0.1520 5.4300e+06<br>
4 5 2 0.1430 8.1800e+06<br>
5 6 2 0.1000 2.3200e+07<br>
7 8 2 0.1530 7.1500e+06<br>
8 9 2 0.1530 7.1500e+06<br>
[ pairs ]<br>
; ai aj funct ; all 1-4 pairs but the ones excluded in GROMOS itp<br>
1 5 1<br>
1 8 1<br>
2 6 1<br>
2 7 1<br>
3 4 1<br>
3 9 1<br>
[ angles ]<br>
; ai aj ak funct angle fc<br>
2 1 3 2 109.50 380.00<br>
1 2 4 2 109.50 320.00<br>
1 3 7 2 109.50 320.00<br>
2 4 5 2 111.00 530.00<br>
4 5 6 2 108.53 443.00<br>
3 7 8 2 111.00 530.00<br>
7 8 9 2 111.00 530.00<br>
[ dihedrals ]<br>
; GROMOS improper dihedrals<br>
; ai aj ak al funct angle fc<br>
[ dihedrals ]<br>
; ai aj ak al funct ph0 cp mult<br>
3 1 2 4 1 0.00 1.26 3<br>
2 1 3 7 1 0.00 1.26 3<br>
1 2 4 5 1 0.00 2.53 3<br>
1 3 7 8 1 0.00 3.77 3<br>
2 4 5 6 1 0.00 1.26 3<br>
3 7 8 9 1 0.00 3.77 3<br>
[ exclusions ]<br>
; ai aj funct ; GROMOS 1-4 exclusions<br>
<br>
<br>
Thanks and Regards,<br>
Rini<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
----------------<br>
Dr. Rini Gupta<br>
Postdoctoral Fellow<br>
University of British Columbia<br>
Vancouver<br>
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