There's lots of information in the gromacs manual to show that the .atp file is not the only file that you must modify. My most important suggestion to you is that you should read the entire manual, possibly twice, before attempting to build new molecules.

Gromacs manual, page 96:
5.3.1    Atoms
A number of static properties are assigned to the atom types in the GROMACS force field: Type, Mass, Charge, and ? (see Table 5.2 The mass is listed in ff???.atp (see 5.2.1), whereas the charge is listed in ff???.rtp (.rtp = residue topology parameter file, see 5.6.1). This implies that the charges are only defined in the building blocks of amino acids or user defined building blocks. When generating a topology (*.top) using the pdb2gmx program the information from these files is combined.

Then on page 97:
"In the file ff???bon.itp you can add bonded parameters. If you want to include parameters for new atom types, make sure you define this new atom type in ff???.atp as well."

Then on page 120:
For each force field there a five files which are only used by pdb2gmx. These are: the residue database (.rtp, see 5.6.1) the hydrogen database (.hdb, see 5.6.2), two termini databases (.tdb, see 5.6.3) and the atom type database (.atp) which contains only the masses.

I'm not going to post a detailed account of how to add an atom because it is key for you to fully understand what all of the forcefield files are doing if you are going to do something like create a new atom type. The information is all in the manual though, and search "exotic species" on the wiki, although lots of links there are still broken after the migration to a new wiki type.

By the way, you didn't post nearly enough information! You are trying to parameterize a new molecule and you got an error and the only thing that you posted was the error message ..... you're much more likely to get good help if you make it easier for everybody else to help you.

Chris

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Hi Users,

I am experiencing the following fatal error when I try using the
grompp command.

grompp -f mdout.mdp -r conf.gro -p topol.top

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Program grompp, VERSION 4.0.99-dev-20100409-0045555
Source code file: toppush.c, line: 631

Fatal error:
Unknown bond_atomtype OSL


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OSL is defined in the atomtypes.atp file located in the force field
folder that I constructed.  Thus, I do not understand why it is
"unknown."

Does anybody know how to address this error?

Many Thanks,
Peter Huwe


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