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Demetrio, 

what does your question have to do with COSMO? In your entire text the word COSMO does not appear? So why the title "COSMO vs
G98"? If you are interested in a question regarding COSMO vs. G98 you can ask me.

Andreas

dasf@ifi.unicamp.br schrieb:
> 
> Dear CCL'ers,
> 
> I'm trying to reproduce some DFT calculations carried out with the DZP basis
> using the local density approximation (LDA) implemented in DMOL (MSI/Biosym,
> Inc). There is no additional information about the DFT method or functional
> used.
> 
> I don't have access to such program and so I want to know if with those
> informations I can choose in  G98 a functional and a basis set in order to
> reproduce those calculations.
> 
> Can anybody help me with this?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Demetrio Filho
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Probably the some manual editing of the file would be necessary, for example the change ATOM label to
HETATM of the Mo atoms, and/or correct the atom type of the problematic atoms. It is difficult to say
without having seen the file.
Could you send me the pdb file to have a look on it ?

with regards

Dr Tamas E. Gunda

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> Hello All,
>   While trying to convert a pdb file to mol2 format using babel I get
> the following message without the job being done. The proytein molecule 
> has Mo at its active site .Could anyone suggest how to get around this 
> problem.
> 
> 
> 
> Unable to assign HYB type to atom 1333 type = N
> Unable to assign HYB type to atom 1334 type = N
> Unable to assign HYB type to atom 2344 type = N
> Unable to assign HYB type to atom 3638 type = Mo
> Unable to assign HYB type to atom 7294 type = Mo
> 
> Thanks
> 
> CHINMOY RANJAN
> INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
> KANPUR



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Dear CCLers,

does anyone know whether these no-cost versions of MOPAC7 are bug fixed? It is known that MOPAC7 is not as bug-free as the older
versions of MOPAC have been, just since Jimmy Stewart stopped his development work on MOPAC7 shortly after the release. There is
no instance any more for people having contributed code to MOPAC7 to get bugs officially fixed. For example I am aware of
several severe bugs in COSMO in MOPAC7, which for a long time have been removed in the maintained MOPAC versions. The bugs
turned out more or less accidently since some one the apparently very rare MOPAC7 users asked me about strange results. I
assume, that the COSMO part in MOPAC7 is not the only one having bugs.

The question is, whether it makes sense to recommend the use of an eight year old code (release of MOPAC7 was 1993) of unknown
quality, whithout having the contacts to all the contributors who really understand the different parts of the code.

Andreas
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Robert Jorissen schrieb:
> 
> There are at least two versions of MOPAC 7 which have user interfaces.
> 
> Winmopac7.21 from Roman Shchepin and Dmitriy Litvinov uses the publicly
> available programs MOPAC 7, the Rasmol molecular visualization program and
> the molecular coordinate format conversion program Babel and puts them
> together in a PC interface. You have to type in the Z-matrix but quick
> visualization using Rasmol greatly helps. The relevant Web pages are
> http://members.fortunecity.com/winmopac/ and
> http://winmopac.narod.ru/english.html. This program is free.
> 
> The program Mopd from Peter Zhou also visualizes the molecules in MOPAC
> files. This program, as well as a compiled version of MOPAC 7 (for 60 heavy
> atoms and 60 hydrogens), can be downloaded at no cost from
> http://www.geocities.com/peterxz/. These programs require Windows 95 or
> Windows NT.
> 
> Robert Jorissen
> Ludwig Insitute for Cancer Research, Melbourne branch
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Dear Computational Chemists,
	Until our copy of g98 arrives (ordered), I am trying to compile
g94 on a 1GHz Athlon system with 512 MB RAM under RedHat Linux 7.0.
I have checked the archives, but found nothing directly applicable.
Anyone any ideas about these problems-

Using bsd/bldg94 > bldg94.log

We get lots of  ......

cc: -sort-common: linker input file unused since linking not done

errors/commets, then just before it quits we get ........

cc: -sort-common: linker input file unused since linking not done
ml402.f:
   MAIN ml402:
cc: -sort-common: linker input file unused since linking not done
bd0402.o(.data+0x0): multiple definition of `natorb_'
l402.a(bd0402.o)(.data+0x0): first defined here
bd0402.o(.data+0x1c0): multiple definition of `atomic_'
l402.a(bd0402.o)(.data+0x1c0): first defined here
bd0402.o(.data+0x880): multiple definition of `vsips_'
l402.a(bd0402.o)(.data+0x880): first defined here
bd0402.o(.data+0x12a0): multiple definition of `istope_'
l402.a(bd0402.o)(.data+0x12a0): first defined here
bd0402.o(.data+0x1600): multiple definition of `ideas_'
l402.a(bd0402.o)(.data+0x1600): first defined here
bd0402.o(.data+0x7a60): multiple definition of `ideap_'
l402.a(bd0402.o)(.data+0x7a60): first defined here
bd0402.o(.data+0xdec0): multiple definition of `mndo_'
l402.a(bd0402.o)(.data+0xdec0): first defined here
bd0402.o(.data+0x12860): multiple definition of `pm3_'
l402.a(bd0402.o)(.data+0x12860): first defined here
bd0402.o(.data+0x17200): multiple definition of `alptm_'
l402.a(bd0402.o)(.data+0x17200): first defined here
bd0402.o(.data+0x173e0): multiple definition of `elemts_'
l402.a(bd0402.o)(.data+0x173e0): first defined here
bd0402.o(.data+0x174c0): multiple definition of `refs_'
l402.a(bd0402.o)(.data+0x174c0): first defined here
bd0402.o(.data+0x1fa80): multiple definition of `onele3_'
l402.a(bd0402.o)(.data+0x1fa80): first defined here
bd0402.o(.data+0x1fba0): multiple definition of `twoel3_'
l402.a(bd0402.o)(.data+0x1fba0): first defined here
bd0402.o(.data+0x1ff00): multiple definition of `atomi3_'
l402.a(bd0402.o)(.data+0x1ff00): first defined here
bd0402.o(.data+0x20020): multiple definition of `beta3_'
l402.a(bd0402.o)(.data+0x20020): first defined here
bd0402.o(.data+0x20500): multiple definition of `alpha3_'
l402.a(bd0402.o)(.data+0x20500): first defined here
bd0402.o(.data+0x209e0): multiple definition of `expon3_'
l402.a(bd0402.o)(.data+0x209e0): first defined here
bd0402.o(.data+0x20b00): multiple definition of `alpha_'
l402.a(bd0402.o)(.data+0x20b00): first defined here
bd0402.o(.data+0x20e60): multiple definition of `core_'
l402.a(bd0402.o)(.data+0x20e60): first defined here
bd0402.o(.data+0x211c0): multiple definition of `multip_'
l402.a(bd0402.o)(.data+0x211c0): first defined here
bd0402.o(.data+0x22280): multiple definition of `expont_'
l402.a(bd0402.o)(.data+0x22280): first defined here
bd0402.o(.data+0x22ca0): multiple definition of `onelec_'
l402.a(bd0402.o)(.data+0x22ca0): first defined here
bd0402.o(.data+0x236c0): multiple definition of `betas_'
l402.a(bd0402.o)(.data+0x236c0): first defined here
bd0402.o(.data+0x240e0): multiple definition of `twoele_'
l402.a(bd0402.o)(.data+0x240e0): first defined here
bd0402.o: In function `bd0402_':
bd0402.o(.text+0x0): multiple definition of `bd0402_'
l402.a(bd0402.o)(.text+0x0): first defined here
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [l402.exe] Error 1

Any suggestions most welcome.  Or a working makefile :^)
	Cheers,
		Dave

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Dear CCLers,

I downloaded Autodock3.0.5 last week and can't compile the Autogrid part
under linux (mdk 7.02 uptodated) because of an error in main function.
Here is the message :

main.c: In function `main':
main.c:106: `XYZ' undeclared (first use in this function)
main.c:106: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
main.c:106: for each function it appears in.)
make: *** [main.o] Error 1

Big bug but did someone download that soft and compile it for linux or
have the same problem ? Is there a known fix ?

Thank you very much for any answer.

Antoine FORTUNE

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Hello Antoine and All!

On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Antoine wrote:

> I downloaded Autodock3.0.5 last week and can't compile the Autogrid part
> under linux (mdk 7.02 uptodated) because of an error in main function.
> Here is the message :
>
> main.c: In function `main':
> main.c:106: `XYZ' undeclared (first use in this function)

The simplest procedure is to edit the autocomm.h file. Find the
declaration
#define SPACE        3

and add the following line for example under it:
#define XYZ          3

Apparently the variable name has changed between versions, but not at
every location.

Have a nice day,
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Hello Dr. Andreas,

You are right. I was reading a paper where they used COSMO and DMOL and
I got confused with the words.

The subject should be DMOL vc G98.

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Hi all

I thought that the subject of this posting was the "experimental H-bond
strength in solution"?
If so, why does everyone cite theoretical papers/methods/results?

Richard--
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Hi,

I tried a G98 job on Celeron 667. Unfortunately, the speed is very very
slow. The speed of running G98 is on the level of Pentium II/233. I
don't know why. Any explanation? Thanks in advance.

Yubo

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Jordi Villa wrote:

> because at the end of the original message the author asked about how
> to simulate them. Please, read the messages before implying anything.

I wasn't the one doing the implying.

The following is from the ORIGINAL post.

=========================================
Dear all,

Since it's well-known that the H-bond strength will be
highly weaken in solution, compared with that in gap
phase, I am curious if there is any experimental
evidence or hint available.
=========================================

Notice the words "theoretical" or "calculated" are not anywhere
to be seen.

Richard

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Hi,

I think I can contribute to this discussion.  In my own single processor G98
A.7 Celeron vs. PII comparison testing I found the Celeron outperforms the
PII MHz per MHZ by ~10% for the following job types (consistent up to
molecules with 70 atoms and 850 basis fncs):

Hartree-Fock calculations: both DIIS(L502.EXE) and QC (L508.EXE) with the
incore, conventional, and direct algorithms

Frequency calculations (L701.EXE, L703.EXE, L1002.EXE, L1101.EXE, L1110.EXE)

Excited State calculations (L914.EXE)

I compared the processors with G98 A.7 in WIN95, WINNT 4.0 SP5, WIN2000 pro,
RedHat 6.0, RedHat 6.1, and RedHat 6.2 and the results were fairly
consistent.

What I did not compare was correlation methods (ie CCSD, CASSCF, MP2) or
DFT.  I should also mention that for the same tests the Athlon classic (1/2
and 2/5 L2 cache divisors) outperform the celeron another ~10% MHz per MHz.

Having said that, there is no reason, at the CPU level, why your celeron 667
is performing so poorly.  How much RAM is accessible by the celeron?  If you
only have 32MB then you will be suffering.  What is your operating system?
Also, is this a home-built system or a vendor provided system (such as HP or
Gateway)?  If you can access the BIOS, is your L2 cache enabled? What about
the L1 cache?  And is your BIOS current?

Since computer hardware debugging is OT for the CCL I would suggest we take
this conversation off-line and figure out what is wrong with your particular
celeron system.  The bottom line for listening CCLers is that your results
are atypical.

Respectfully,

Phillip Matz
(just a graduate student at WSU)
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> Hi,
>
> I tried a G98 job on Celeron 667. Unfortunately, the speed is very very
> slow. The speed of running G98 is on the level of Pentium II/233. I
> don't know why. Any explanation? Thanks in advance.
>
> Yubo
>
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Dear Colleagues,

I would like to call your attention to a web-accessible database of
measured intermolecular binding affinities (BindingDB) that my group
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take a look also at:

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On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, mike smith wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> Since it's well-known that the H-bond strength will be
> highly weaken in solution, compared with that in gap
> phase, I am curious if there is any experimental
> evidence or hint available. 
> 
> Also, I found two papers on the potential enrgy curves
> of H-bond in gas-phase and solution:
>   (1)Dang, L X; Kollman, P. A, 
>           J Am Chem Soc, 1990, 112,503
> 
>        AT base pair (H-bond & stacking)
>         from 12kcal/mol(gas) to 0.8kcal/mol (solution)
> 
>    (2)Osapay, K; Young W S; Brooks C L; Case D A
>           J Phys Chem 1996, 100, 2698
>       Updated in Annu Rev Phys Chem, 2000, 51, 129
> 
>          formamide dimer
>         from 6.7 kcal/mol to 0.8 kcal/mol
> 
> Here, I am wondering if any of you could provide me
> more related reference. Also, any discussion on the
> method to simulate this accurately would be highly
> appreciated.
> 
> Thanks for your attention!
> 
> --Mike
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> I don't know what can be done to limit this (in my mind)
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Open Source code would be an important first step. In fact, I do not
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because at the end of the original message the author asked about how to
simulate them. Please, read the messages before implying anything.

Richard Wood wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I thought that the subject of this posting was the "experimental H-bond
> strength in solution"?
> If so, why does everyone cite theoretical papers/methods/results?
>
> Richard--
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Hi All,
  Thanks to Barry Israelevich for the quick reply. Although in Raster3D
there are no explicit camera position or zoom variables. But I think I
managed to do that by tweaking the global X-form matrix. 
 Come to think of it, it would be nice if once the
orthographic/perspective projections are set, the same be taken into
account while generating the ray-tracer input file.

Thanks once again.
Devapriya

Original question:
> 
> Hi All,
>   When I generate a picture in VMD using the Orthographic projection mode
> and subsequently render the image (Raster3D), the view seems to
> automatically shift to perspective projection mode.
>  Does anyone know a fix ?

----Replies---------------------------------------------
(1) From: Barry Isralewitz <barryi@ks.uiuc.edu>
        A near-perfect way to simulate orthographic coordinates with
any raytracing program (such as Raster3D) is: move the camera far
back, increase the zoom appropriately.  Most raytracing programs have
these two paramaters early in their input files (written by VMD), so
just alter the settings, then re-run the ouput file (i.e. plot.r3d)
through the renderer.

(2) From: Adrian E. Roitberg <adrian@qtp.ufl.edu>
 would love to know the answer to that one !
THe same thing happens with povray...
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I can imagine someone may have been sick of such
discussions away from the topic, however, it's still
related, and the only problem could be that the title
wasn't changed... 

The real problem could be almost no experimental
evidence available, at lease for those listers who
know how to use email and are kind rnough to share
their knowledge with others :-)...


Water Miller


>From: Richard Wood <rlw28@cornell.edu>
>To: chemistry@ccl.net
>Subject: CCL:experiment of H-bond strength in
solution

>Jordi Villa wrote:

>> because at the end of the original message the
>>author asked about how
>> to simulate them. Please, read the messages before
>implying anything.

>I wasn't the one doing the implying.

>The following is from the ORIGINAL post.

>=========================================
>Dear all,

>Since it's well-known that the H-bond strength will
be
>highly weaken in solution, compared with that in gap
>phase, I am curious if there is any experimental
>evidence or hint available.
>=========================================

>Notice the words "theoretical" or "calculated" are
not >anywhere
>to be seen.
>
>Richard

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--- Richard Wood <rlw28@cornell.edu> wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I thought that the subject of this posting was the
> "experimental H-bond
> strength in solution"?
> If so, why does everyone cite theoretical
> papers/methods/results?
> 
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At 6:55 PM +0100 3/19/01, Konrad Hinsen wrote:
>  > I don't know what can be done to limit this (in my mind)
>  > needless duplication of effort.
>
>If Open Source were common in computational chemistry, then probably
>there would also be corresponding Web sites that organize and
>catalogue development efforts (perhaps even the same that take care of
>OpenSource development in other application domains).

Indeed, isn't this partly the aim of the OpenScience project at 
openscience.org? (I will note that I am not affiliated with the 
group, but have encountered it using the JMol and JChemPaint 
programs.) And, of course, there are several chemistry-related 
projects hosted at places like SourceForge.

I'll also echo your call for more use of open source and free 
licenses in academic computational chemistry. I can think of more 
than a few cases where code has fallen by the wayside as groups move 
to other projects, etc. Proper citation is still required in 
publications, so am I wrong in saying that an academic group loses 
little by releasing the source to the community?

Do others have a different viewpoint? I would be glad to summarize 
responses to the list one way or the other.

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Dear Richard,

I would not like to start a non-sense discussion here, but if you look at the
end of the message you quote you will see the following paragraph:


> Here, I am wondering if any of you could provide me
> more related reference. Also, any discussion on the
> method to simulate this accurately would be highly
> appreciated.

I guess you did not see that part. Sorry about my message. I did not pretend to
upset you and I don't think starting an argument about understanding of e-mails
will be good for any of us.
Apart from that, I would say that it is interesting from time to time to bring
some scientific discussion to the CCL, apart from keywords problems in Gaussian
and computer power of machines. That is why I liked the question from Mike
Smit. Sorry if I was too long in my arguments, but sometimes I wonder if the
CCL should change the name for CGL ("computer guru list").
And, please, nobody feel bad about what I say, it is just the feeling I get
sometimes I open the CCL e-mails. I still consider the list a valuable source
of information, but sometimes people should be more careful.

Best regards to all of you and sorry for the complain,



Richard Wood wrote:

> Jordi Villa wrote:
>
> > because at the end of the original message the author asked about how
> > to simulate them. Please, read the messages before implying anything.
>
> I wasn't the one doing the implying.
>
> The following is from the ORIGINAL post.
>
> =========================================
> Dear all,
>
> Since it's well-known that the H-bond strength will be
> highly weaken in solution, compared with that in gap
> phase, I am curious if there is any experimental
> evidence or hint available.
> =========================================
>
> Notice the words "theoretical" or "calculated" are not anywhere
> to be seen.
>
> Richard
>
> --
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> Post-doctoral Associate
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Konrad Hinsen wrote:

> > I don't know what can be done to limit this (in my mind)
> > needless duplication of effort.
>
> Open Source code would be an important first step. In fact, I do not
> understand why this concept isn't standard for academic applications.
> Much academic code is already free, so why not take the next step and
> make it freely redistributable, also in modified form? And for those
> academic packages that are not free, I seriously doubt that they are
> in any sense profitable.
>

Some academic code is very profitable.  MSI and others make a living (or should I
say a killing?) off of academic packages that have been commercialized.  I think
the critical question is whether we as computational Scientists are happy with this
arrangement or whether we and our Science would benefit from more free source code
written by other scientists.  My guess is that the impact of significant amounts of
*reusable* source-code building blocks would be profound and world changing.  At
the very least, competition from open-source would force commercial software
developers to greatly improve the quality of their packages.

I applaud the work Konrad has done in this direction with the MMTK package.  My
efforts to create a free professional-strength, interoperable, and open-source
molecular graphics/editing system (PyMOL) reflect this shared vision.  If only more
scientists/developers would do likewise with their projects!

After all, if you are not going to commercialize your code, then why not make it
available to other scientists unconditionally?  Instead of allowing your great work
to languish on some back-up tape, please release it to the world and allow it to be
*modified* and *redistributed*.  By doing so, you will change the field irrevocably
and enable the next generation of computational research tools to be built on
*your* foundation.  As it stands, each of us is so busy pouring foundations that we
never get around to building cathedrals.  Let's change that.

Thanks to the internet's exceedingly low distribution costs, and the advent of
modular, extensible scripting languages such as Perl and Python, you now have no
excuse other than vanity for allowing your good code to remain restricted and
unutilized.

I propose initiating an effort to accumulate unrestricted computational chemistry
source-code into a single curated distribution, probably on a SourceForge
instance.  This "Free Molecule Project" would require a significant number of
volunteers -- so I am going to float this trail balloon:    If you have interest in
such a project and would consider contributing, please email me directly.  Assuming
there are enough interested parties, I'll set up a mailing list, and we will start
a discussion about how such a project might come together.

- Warren


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