You could use ptraj to image a frame from before the crash and generate a new 
restart file, but whenever I've done this I've lost the velocities. Maybe 
someone knows how to avoid this?
Kristina
>===== Original Message From "Sivakolundu, Sivashankar" 
<Sivashankar.Sivakolundu.stjude.org> =====
>Dear Dr. Case,
>Thank you for the reply. I think it was due to non-removal of translational 
motion (by setting nscm=0), since a test simulation I did with default nscm 
doesn't change coordinates much.
>Now that the damage is done to my long simulation, is it possible to restart 
the calculation using coordinates from the trajectory file just before the 
crash? I tried to just put together a new restart file from the coordinates 
and velocities of
>the system ~1 ns before the crash (from the trajectory file) but neither 
sander nor carnal could read in the coordinates. I think this is mainly b'cos 
of the large values for xyz coordinates, since a similar restart file created 
using the
>coordinates and velocities at very early stage of simulation was read fine by 
sander and carnal.
>Is there any way I can restart the simulation using the 
coordinates/velocities obtained from trajectory file?
>
>Thank you very much
>Siva Sivakolundu
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: David A. Case [mailto:case.scripps.edu]
>Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2003 11:07 PM
>To: amber.scripps.edu
>Subject: Re: AMBER: large changes in xyz coordinates
>
>On Sat, Aug 16, 2003, Sivakolundu, Sivashankar wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to do an constant pressure md simulation of a protein solvated 
in
>> a water box using Amber 7 for several nanoseconds. The simulation went fine
>> until it was around 8 ns and then it crashed without any error message. I
>> couldn't restart the simulation since the restart file didnt seem to have
>> any coordinates (see below), though the values for velocities looked fine.
>
>You should certainly visualize your trajectory to see what is going on...
>my guess is that some problem will be obvious, if all of the coordinates
>are getting extremely large.
>
>You set nscm to 0, which disables removal of center-of-mass translational
>motion...it is probably better to leave this at its default value.
>
>If the program crashed in the middle of a run (you don't say) I don't know
>why that would happen.  But it looks like somehow you generated some
>translational motion in the system during equilibration, and never removed
>any of it.
>
>.hope this helps...dac
>
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>
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