1.1 Installation of GENESIS for Tutorials
Preparation of the directory
First of all, let’s create a directory for the GENESIS tutorials under the home directory by executing the following commands. We create a main directory “GENESIS_Tutorials-2019
“, followed by three sub-directories “Programs
“, “Data
“, and “Works
“. “Programs
” is where we will put the main software used in this project, i.e. the GENESIS program. “Data
” is where we will put important data that will be commonly used throughout this project, such as PDB files and force field parameter files. Thus, we would like to make two sub-directories “PDB
” and “Parameters
” under “Data
” beforehand. “Works
” is where we will run the MD simulation of the tutorial (see Tutorial 3 and later). Here, we also make a “TRASH
” directory under “Works
“. The role of TRASH
will be explained later.
# Move to the home directory $ cd $ pwd /home/user # Create a directory for this project $ mkdir GENESIS_Tutorials-2019 $ cd GENESIS_Tutorials-2019 # Create main directories $ mkdir Programs Data Works $ ls Data Programs Works # Create sub-directories $ mkdir Data/PDB $ mkdir Data/Parameters $ mkdir Works/TRASH
Download GENESIS
In this tutorial, we will use GENESIS version 1.7.1. We put the GENESIS source code in Programs
. Note that the tilde (~) in the 2nd command stands for the “home directory”.
# Put the source code of GENESIS in the "Programs" directory $ cd Programs $ mv ~/Downloads/genesis-1.7.1.tar.bz2 ./ $ bzip2 -d genesis-1.7.1.tar.bz2 $ tar -xvf genesis-1.7.1.tar $ cd genesis-1.7.1 $ ls AUTHORS INSTALL README configure.ac missing COPYING Makefile.am aclocal.m4 depcomp src COPYING.LESSER Makefile.in compile fortdep.py ChangeLog NEWS configure install-sh
Install GENESIS
Let’s run the configure command. This “configure
” is a script that checks your computing environment, and automatically create a “Makefile
” that includes suitable compile options. If you have some troubles, please check the GENESIS user manual or Installation page. Next, run the “make install
” command, which will create a “bin
” directory in the same directory and install the program there. You can find many programs in the bin
directory. Here, atdyn
and spdyn
are the MD simulation programs, and the others are mostly trajectory analysis tools. In Tutorial 3 and later, we will run each of these programs.
# Install GENESIS $ ./configure $ ls AUTHORS Makefile aclocal.m4 configure.ac src COPYING Makefile.am compile depcomp COPYING.LESSER Makefile.in config.log fortdep.py ChangeLog NEWS config.status install-sh INSTALL README configure missing $ make install $ ls AUTHORS Makefile aclocal.m4 configure missing COPYING Makefile.am bin configure.ac src COPYING.LESSER Makefile.in compile depcomp ChangeLog NEWS config.log fortdep.py INSTALL README config.status install-sh # Check the contents $ ls ./bin atdyn hb_analysis qval_analysis avecrd_analysis hbond_analysis qval_residcg_analysis cg_convert kmeans_clustering rdf_analysis comcrd_analysis lipidthick_analysis remd_convert contact_analysis mbar_analysis rg_analysis crd_convert meanforce_analysis ring_analysis density_analysis morph_generator rmsd_analysis diffusion_analysis msd_analysis rpath_generator distmat_analysis pathcv_analysis rst_convert drms_analysis pcavec_drawer rst_upgrade dssp_interface pcrd_convert sasa_analysis eigmat_analysis pmf_analysis spdyn emmap_generator prjcrd_analysis tilt_analysis flccrd_analysis prst_setup trj_analysis fret_analysis qmmm_generator wham_analysis
Here, we did not add any options to the configure
command. This simple command will install GENESIS running on a CPU. In fact, most tutorials are designed to use the CPU version. If you want to run the tutorials using CPU+GPU, please add the option for GPU. Note, however, that in this case only spdyn
will be installed, and some tutorials cannot be run with spdyn
alone.
Let’s clean up the directory
Now, let’s do a short exercise in organizing the files and directories. Please take a look inside the Programs
directory. We have genesis-1.7.1.tar
and genesis-1.7.1
. In fact, we don’t need the genesis-1.7.1.tar
anymore, and we can delete it with the rm
command. However, instead of deleting the file, we would like to make a “Source
” directory, compress the tar file, and keep it there. This is because we can quickly reinstall the program without downloading it again, and also we may install other software in the Programs
directory later.
# Find unnecessary files $ cd ../ $ ls genesis-1.7.1 genesis-1.7.1.tar # Clean up the directory $ mkdir Source $ gzip genesis-1.7.1.tar $ mv genesis-1.7.1.tar.gz Source $ ls Source genesis-1.7.1
Now, we have constructed the following directory structure for this project.
/home/user
+ GENESIS_Tutorials-2019 # Project name
|
+ Programs # Main software for this project
| + Source
| + genesis-1.7.1
| + src # Source code of GENESIS 1.7.1
| + bin # Binary code of GENESIS 1.7.1
|
+ Data # Common important data in this project
| + PDB
| + Parameters
|
+ Works # All simulations will be done here
+ TRASH
Many people may want to install programs in a common directory, such as /usr/local/bin
. However, this can make it difficult to know However, this can make it difficult to know where the original source code is. To avoid such situation, we would like to install the core programs locally, i.e., under the project’s directory “GENESIS_Tutorials-2019
“.
As demonstrated above, in our tutorial we will also show you some techniques for cleaning up directories. In computational research, many files and directories are generated or created. If you do not carefully organize the directory structure in your research, the files and directories can become cluttered or messy, causing mistakes or affecting the research efficiency, report writing, publication, and data management. We hope that our tutorial will also inspire you to get into a good habit of cleaning up directories.
Written by Takaharu Mori@RIKEN Theoretical molecular science laboratory Dec. 16, 2021