On 5/13/10 8:31 PM, Tiago Barros wrote:
Dear all,

There was a similar thread in the archives, but I could not find the solution to my problem from the only reply (nor in the manual).

I've been trying to add 3 h2po4 ions to my system, as these appear to be tightly bound to the protein I want to use in my calculations.

I got hold of a h2po4.gro file (from the mailing list archive) and used genbox to successfully had 3 h2po4 molecules to the system. My idea was to then change the coordinates my hand in other to match the position of the 3 PO4 residues from the crystal structure. As I want to use the ffG43a1 force field, I made a modified copy (PO4.itp) of the h2po4.itp file so that the atomtype "HO" was modified to "H" (as in ffG43a1.atp; but this I already found suspicious). I then added #include "PO4.itp" right after the #include "ions.itp" and added "PO4 3" to the end of the .top file.

grompp stops with the error:

-------------------------------------------------------
Program grompp, VERSION 4.0.7
Source code file: toppush.c, line: 1379

Fatal error:
Incorrect number of parameters - found 1, expected 2 or 4 for Bond.
-------------------------------------------------------

Is the 'h2po4.itp" file not appropriate to use with the ffG43a1 force field?
Since I made the itp file, it probably needs to be updated to new top format. If you check the file it has

[ bonds ]
;  ai    aj funct           c0           c1
    5     1     1 1.637000e-01

so a force constant has to be added.


Is there a more appropriate way to include PO4 residues from crystal structures?

Many thanks,

Tiago


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