Jacob Harvey wrote:
Thank you for your help Justin. I have corrected my naming problem in the pdb file. However, I am still getting errors. It does not seem to recognize the residues. BUT I dont actually have "residues" in my system, because I am not modeling a protein. So I am not sure what to put in the residue name column. Gromacs does work on molecules that are not proteins correct? My molecules are histidine like so I tried putting HIS as the residue name, but I got the error:


If you want to use pdb2gmx to automatically generate your topology, you have to ensure that the appropriate .rtp entry is present within the desired force field and has the same name as the building block you are trying to use (again, this is spelled out in Chapter 5 of the manual). If you call your molecule "HIS," then pdb2gmx will not magically build a random molecule; it will try to build histidine, based on the [ HIS ] entry in the .rtp file, so it will look for the exact atomic entries for histidine, no more no less.

If you want a topology for an arbitrary molecule, you *can not* use pdb2gmx (unless you build the .rtp entry yourself). You will have to build it by hand, or use another program to build the .top file. I just uploaded a script I wrote to build an OPLS-AA topology from a .pdb file to the Users Contributions section on the website, but it does not assign atom types or charges (yet); it is up to you to assign the parameters and verify them.

"Fatal error:
Residue 'H' not found in residue topology database"


Because it is not histidine.

When I dont put anything in that column I get the error:

"Fatal error:
Residue '' not found in residue topology database"


Because of a formatting error (the fact that your residue is either blank, or the number 2).

And when I just generically call everything solvent and put SOL in that column I get:

"Fatal error:
Residue 'S' not found in residue topology database"


Probably another formatting issue. But none of the above actually solve your problem, you're just trying to fool pdb2gmx into being magic, which it is not.

-Justin

You get the picture here. Does anyone have any solutions to my residue naming problem? Thank you.

here is my pdb file:

HETATM    1  CT          2      -4.438   3.334   2.988
HETATM    2  CT          2       0.588   3.313   0.517
HETATM    3  CT          2       5.476   3.310  -2.216
HETATM    4  HC          2      -4.134   2.590   3.731
HETATM    5  HC          2      -5.525   3.438   3.047
HETATM    6  HC          2      -3.996   4.291   3.276
HETATM    7  HC          2       1.480   3.111   1.117
HETATM    8  HC          2      -0.266   3.349   1.200
HETATM    9  HC          2       0.702   4.307   0.076
HETATM   10  HC          2       6.375   3.525  -1.633
HETATM   11  HC          2       4.648   3.862  -1.761
HETATM   12  HC          2       5.628   3.709  -3.223
HETATM   13  CT          2      -3.996   2.922   1.581
HETATM   14  HC          2      -2.902   2.862   1.545
HETATM   15  HC          2      -4.281   3.703   0.865
HETATM   16  CT          2       0.394   2.242  -0.557
HETATM   17  HC          2      -0.485   2.486  -1.167
HETATM   18  HC          2       1.250   2.252  -1.242
HETATM   19  CT          2       5.188   1.805  -2.247
HETATM   20  HC          2       6.018   1.286  -2.742
HETATM   21  HC          2       4.300   1.615  -2.864
HETATM   22  CT          2      -4.587   1.582   1.127
HETATM   23  HC          2      -5.682   1.638   1.161
HETATM   24  HC          2      -4.298   0.792   1.828
HETATM   25  CT          2       0.235   0.836   0.028
HETATM   26  HC          2      -0.616   0.818   0.720
HETATM   27  HC          2       1.117   0.581   0.625
HETATM   28  CT          2       4.981   1.206  -0.852
HETATM   29  HC          2       4.152   1.720  -0.350

Jacob Harvey

On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Justin A. Lemkul <jalem...@vt.edu <mailto:jalem...@vt.edu>> wrote:



    Jacob Harvey wrote:

        Dear All,

        I am trying to use the OPLS-AA force field to model some
        imidazole containing compounds. I've noticed that imidazole
        units are referenced in the ffoplsaa.atp file as the following:

        opls_557   14.00670  ; N1  in imidazole
         opls_558   12.01100  ; C2  in imidazole
         opls_559   14.00670  ; N3  in imidazole
         opls_560   12.01100  ; C4  in imidazole
         opls_561   12.01100  ; C5  in imidazole
         opls_562    1.00800  ; H1  in imidazole
         opls_563    1.00800  ; H2  in imidazole
         opls_564    1.00800  ; H4  in imidazole
         opls_565    1.00800  ; H5  in imidazole

        But there are no parameters for these atoms in the ffoplsaa.rtp
        file. Does anyone know how I can go about naming these atoms in
        my pdb file? Thank you in advance.


    Not every compound is present in a .rtp file.  Check out its
    contents and you'll see what it has - pretty much just amino acids.
     The charges on each atom are not specific to an atom type, they are
    specific to a chemical species for which the parameterization scheme
    has been conducted.  Lennard-Jones parameters are specified in
    ffoplsaanb.itp.

    I suggest a thorough read of Chapter 5 of the manual to understand
    the contents of these database-type files, and how they are used in
    assembling a topology.

    -Justin

        Jacob Harvey

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