From: Josh Vermaas (vermaasj_at_msu.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 10 2021 - 10:35:11 CDT

If you don't see anything nearby in VMD, check your PBC box dimensions.
If the box dimensions are too small for your system, things that look
visually in VMD to be far from everything can still be overlapping.

-Josh

On 6/10/21 11:23 AM, Ropon-Palacios G. wrote:
>
> I understand that I could use the information from this atom to be
> able to make corrections, but each time I use a different type of
> restriction the atoms vary, and even using the same restriction the
> atom changes. Now when I visualize with VMD I don't see that anything
> at 2 A is very close to this atom.
>
> --
>
> *Ropón-Palacios G. BSc., MSc. *
>
> Computational biophysicist,
>
> Associate Research,
>
> Laboratorio de Modelagem Computacional,
>
> Departamento de Ciências Exatas,
>
> Universidad Federal de Alfenas, Minas Gerais, Brasil.
>
> Phone: +51 935 055240.
>
> E-mail: groponp_at_gmail.com <mailto:groponp_at_gmail.com>.
>
> **
>
> *From: *"Vermaas, Josh" <vermaasj_at_msu.edu>
> *Date: *Thursday, June 10, 2021 at 10:20 AM
> *To: *"Ropon-Palacios G." <groponp_at_gmail.com>, Chris Neale
> <candrewn_at_gmail.com>, vmd-L <vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu>
> *Subject: *Re: Found bad contact
>
> Which atom is fast? The NAMD log will tell you. That is where you
> start looking.
>
> -Josh
>
> *From: *"Ropon-Palacios G." <groponp_at_gmail.com>
> *Date: *Thursday, June 10, 2021 at 11:19 AM
> *To: *"Vermaas, Josh" <vermaasj_at_msu.edu>, Chris Neale
> <candrewn_at_gmail.com>, vmd-L <vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu>
> *Subject: *Found bad contact
>
> Dear vmd users,
>
> How can i found bad conctacts?, I’ve create protein-membrane system
> with charm-gui I’m try minimize system but always have problem with
> “atoms moving too very fast”, try use several protocols of
> minimization but not can fix it. Them want found bad contact or clashes.
>
> Please suggest me a script for it.
>
> Best.
>
> --
>
> *Ropón-Palacios G. BSc., MSc. *
>
> Computational biophysicist,
>
> Associate Research,
>
> Laboratorio de Modelagem Computacional,
>
> Departamento de Ciências Exatas,
>
> Universidad Federal de Alfenas, Minas Gerais, Brasil.
>
> Phone: +51 935 055240.
>
> E-mail: groponp_at_gmail.com <mailto:groponp_at_gmail.com>.
>
> **
>
> *From: *<owner-vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu> on behalf of "Vermaas, Josh"
> <vermaasj_at_msu.edu>
> *Date: *Thursday, June 10, 2021 at 9:56 AM
> *To: *Chris Neale <candrewn_at_gmail.com>, vmd-L <vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu>
> *Subject: *Re: vmd-l: loading multiple different topologies into the
> same "molecule"
>
> Hi Chris,
>
> Can’t you use topotools mergemols to do this?
>
> package require topotools
>
> set pdblist [glob *pdb]
>
> set midlist [list ]
>
> foreach pdb $pdblist {
>
>                 set mid [mol new $pdb]
>
>                 lappend midlist $mid
>
> }
>
> set mol [::TopoTools::mergemols $midlist]
>
> animate write psf merged.psf $mol
>
> animate write pdb merged.pdb $mol
>
> This would get you everything into a single molecule, but as you
> state, this would be a royal mess to select over. What exactly are you
> trying to do that needs them in the same molecule?
>
> -Josh
>
> *From: *<owner-vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu> on behalf of Chris Neale
> <candrewn_at_gmail.com>
> *Date: *Wednesday, June 9, 2021 at 8:32 PM
> *To: *vmd-L <vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu>
> *Subject: *vmd-l: loading multiple different topologies into the same
> "molecule"
>
> Dear users:
>
> does anybody know if it's possible to load many different PDB files
> into the same molecule and have those PDB files have different system
> compositions? An example would be to be able to run "vmd -f *.pdb" on
> a large collection of PDB files of the same protein family, etc. I
> realize that some selection tools would then break (e.g., a selection
> of "resid 19" might not always play nice), but sensible selections,
> like "protein" "water", etc might be OK. I know that there are some
> good ideas with putting particles far away for things like constant pH
> simulations, but that's not as generalizable as loading in all SH2
> domains in the PDB, for example.
>
> I realize that I could script image generation, or load hundreds of
> separate molecules with a "vmd -m *pdb" command, but none of those is
> as intuitive for browsing structural data where some models may have
> missing residues, insertions, different sequences, different numbers
> of water, etc.
>
> If such a capability does not exist, can anyone guess how hard it
> would be to implement right in the GUI? I'm not asking for anyone to
> actually do this, just trying to get a sense of how hard it would be.
>
> PS: I've got 10+ years experience with VMD, and I'm fairly confident
> that this is not possible at the present time. However, I'm asking
> since (a) somebody might have a great alternative solution and (b) in
> any event I'm interested in learning how hard this would be to implement.
>
> Thank you for your advice,
>
> Chris.
>

-- 
Josh Vermaas
vermaasj_at_msu.edu
Assistant Professor, Plant Research Laboratory and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Michigan State University
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