[MMTK] Writing universe out to a file

[Jaroslaw Kalinowski]

Have you checked that universe.writeToFile is in fact executed?
As you increment iter counter at the end of the function confition

   if iter >= maxIter:

will never be true.


On Wed, 7 Dec 2005 vanitha at cs.wisc.edu wrote:
> I have a piece of code that minimizes the configuration of a protein. At
> the end of the minimization phase I invoke
> universe.writeToFile('somename.pdb') to write my minimized configuration
> to a PDB. I see no errors but I don't see my file in the current directory
> either. Is it possible that this is saved in a different folder?
>
> Here is my minimization function:
>
> from MMTK import *
> from MMTK.ForceFields import Amber94ForceField
> from MMTK.ParticleProperties import ParticleVector
>
> def Minimize( universe, maxIter, tolerance):
>        # The current configuration of the universe is the initial guess
>
>        energy, gradient = universe.energyAndGradients()
>        print "Energy = ", energy
>        print "Gradient Norm = ", gradient.norm()
>
>        iter = 0
>
>        while iter < maxIter:
>                # Choose the value of alfa using a Backtracking Line Search
>                initialAlfa = 1
>                alfa = initialAlfa
>                direction = -gradient
>                universeCopy = copy(universe)
>                alfa = backtrackingLineSearch( universeCopy, initialAlfa,
> maxIter)
>
>                #print "alfa = ", alfa
>
>                # Update the configuration
>                universe.addToConfiguration(alfa*direction)
>
>                # Get the energy and gradients of the current configuration
>                energy, gradient = universe.energyAndGradients()
>                print "Energy = ", energy
>                print "Gradient Norm = ", gradient.norm()
>                print "Iteration = ", iter
>
>                # Termination Criteria
>                if gradient.norm() <= tolerance:
>                        universe.writeToFile('1bp2_min_s.pdb')
>                        break
>                if iter >= maxIter:
>                        universe.writeToFile('1bp2_min_s.pdb')
>                        break
>
>                # Update the iteration counter
>                iter = iter + 1
>
> Here is the code that invokes it:
>
> from MMTK import *
> from MMTK.Proteins import Protein
> from MMTK.ParticleProperties import ParticleVector
> import SteepestDescent
> from MMTK.ForceFields import Amber94ForceField
>
> universe = InfiniteUniverse(Amber94ForceField())
> universe.Protein = Protein('1bp2.pdb')
> SteepestDescent.Minimize(universe, 1000, 0.0001)
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Vanitha
>
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