Hi,

I've been trying to go through the 'Introduction to Molecular Dynamics Simulations and Analysis' tutorial written by Tsjerk Wassenaar, one of the tutorials listed on the GROMACS website.

I've got to the stage where I am performing energy minimisation on my solvated protein but when I use grompp to create the .tpr file for mdrun, I get the error message:

One of the box lengths is smaller than twice the cut-off length. Increase the box size or decrease rlist


I am using the protein with pdb ID 1QLZ, one of the suggested structures for the tutorial and have so far carried out the following commands:

% pdb2gmx -f 1qlz.pdb -o 1qlz.gro -p 1qlz.top -ignh
% grompp -f minim.mdp -c 1qlz.gro -p 1qlz.top -o 1qlz-EM-vacuum.tpr
% mdrun -v -deffnm 1qlz-EM-vacuum.tpr -c 1qlz-EM-vacuum.pdb
% editconf -f 1qlz-EM-vacuum.pdb -o 1qlz-PBC.gro -bt dodecahedron -d 1.0
% genbox -cp 1qlz-PBC.gro -cs spc216.gro -p 1qlz.top -o 1qlz-water.pdb
% grompp -v -f minim.mdp -c 1qlz-water.pdb -p 1qlz.top -o 1qlz-water.tpr
% genion -s 1qlz-water.tpr -o 1qlz-solvated.pdb -conc 0.15 -neutral - pname NA+ -nname CL- % grompp -v -f minim_pbc.mdp -c 1qlz-solvated.pdb -p 1qlz.top -o 1qlz- EM-solvated.tpr

after which I receive the error message.

The minim_pbd.mdp file I use in the last grompp command is the same as minim.mdp used in previous grompp commands (the latter file I downloaded as part of the tutorial) except that the line 'pbc = no' has been replaced by 'pbc = xyz'.

I have tried increasing the value of 'd' in the editconf command, to 2,3 and even 8 but this doesn't make any difference. (I have read that it is not a good idea to tamper with the cut-off values so have avoided doing that) The box vector lengths when d = 1.0 are all 7.10051, and rvdw, rcoulomb = 1.0 in mimim.mdp and minim_pbd.mdp, so I don't understand what is going wrong...

Anna
--
gmx-users mailing list    [email protected]
http://lists.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users
Please search the archive at http://www.gromacs.org/search before posting!
Please don't post (un)subscribe requests to the list. Use the www interface or send it to [email protected].
Can't post? Read http://www.gromacs.org/mailing_lists/users.php

Reply via email to