AMBER Archive (2005)

Subject: Re: AMBER: problem with ptraj and randomizeions

From: Thomas E. Cheatham, III (cheatham_at_chpc.utah.edu)
Date: Thu Feb 17 2005 - 12:57:23 CST


> I have a problem with the randomizeions command in ptraj. I would like

It is nice to see that someone is using this option to remove the initial
bias of targeted ion placement; however a bit worrisome that it is not
working fully correctly :-)

> randomizeions :Cl- around :1-436 by 5.0 overlap 3.5
> randomizeions :K+ around :1-436 by 5.0 overlap 3.5

Is it a Cl- ion? The parser may be mistakingly treating the minus as a
continuation character (try :Cl? instead).

Which ion is not being moved (i.e. the first or the last meaning perhaps
there is a +/- 1 error in the parser?).

If you start up rdparm, there is the "checkmask" command which will print
out what it thinks it has selected; you can check to see if this matches
all the ions you want to select...

   checkmask :Cl-

Which version of ptraj?

Good luck,

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