On 8/17/12 1:19 PM, Hossein Lanjanian wrote:
Hi
we are new academic users of GROMACS. we installed gromacs 4.5.5 and
tried to learn the job by using tutorials found in the "gromacs.org"
web site. There is one question:
we successfully ran the "1PGB.pdb".
we know that *.pdb or *.gro files are necessary for the rest of
analysis however we have not been able to get either of these two
outputs from the first command " pdb2gmx -f 1PGB.pdb -ter ......"
how is it possible??
If pdb2gmx failed, it will have produced an error message. Just about
everything you might encounter is described here:
http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/Errors#pdb2gmx
Also we were trying to run membrane-receptor simulation, so we used
gromacs.org tutorial again. according to that we got the "B2AR"
protein but there were two problems with capping this protein:
1- when we ran the first command "pdb2gmx -f B2AR.pdb -o
B2AR_processed.gro -ignh -ter " and chose the gromos96ff43a1"
force-field and SPC water, the following error appeared:
"there is a dangling bound at at least one of the terminal ends.
select a proper terminal entry."
Are capping groups present in the input .pdb file? If not, you need to build
them on using some external software. Gromacs by default only treats
protonation state of termini with limited ability to build on atoms (described
in .n.tdb and .c.tdb files).
when we omitted the "-ter" the error message changed to
"there were 3 missing atoms in molecule protein_chain_A, if you want
to use this incomplete topology anyhow, use the option -missing"
after using "-missing" we encountered the following message
It is almost always incorrect to use the -missing flag. Your model needs to be
intact to proceed, otherwise the topology is almost always garbage.
"Residue 'MAL' not found in residue topology database"
pdb2gmx is not magic. See the link above.
2- there is no [ molecules ] section in the topology file, to modify
as mentioned in the section two of tutorial.
You shouldn't move to step 2 if step 1 is failing ;)
In the end:
We have run GROMACS in different distributions of Linux such as
Redhat, Centos and mint, nonetheless, which distribution do you
recommend?
For desktop usage, use whatever distribution you find most convenient. Gromacs
will run on just about anything.
-Justin
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Department of Biochemistry
Virginia Tech
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