Hi, the PDB format doesn't support partial charges, so I suspect the one you write is not a standard one and will not be recognized by the OpenBabel parser. Therefore, when generating the Mol2 file, the default charges (Gasteiger, I believe) will be assigned.
My advice would be to convert directly the MOPAC output (which is supported) into Mol2, and see if the proper charges are kept. S -- Stefano Forli, PhD Assistant Professor of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, Molecular Graphics Laboratory Dept. of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, MB-112F The Scripps Research Institute 10550 North Torrey Pines Road La Jolla, CA 92037-1000, USA. tel: +1 (858)784-2055 fax: +1 (858)784-2860 email: fo...@scripps.edu http://www.scripps.edu/~forli/ ________________________________________ From: samdani [samdani1...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2016 1:07 AM To: openbabel-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Open Babel] Atomic charge changed during conversion from pdb to mol2 Dear open babel community I used MOPAC to minimize the ligand and obtain the output in PDB format with atomic charges. When I converted the PDB file to mol2 using babel the atomic charges were found to be modified. Can anyone help me to preserve the charges during conversion or any other mode of way to obtain the ligand output with atomic charges preserved? Below am pasting the PDB file and mol2 file for reference. The PDB file ATOM 1 O LIG A 1 -2.264 -1.020 0.122 1.00 -0.39 PROT O ATOM 2 O LIG A 1 2.796 0.538 -0.113 1.00 -0.39 PROT O ATOM 3 C LIG A 1 -1.114 -0.659 0.066 1.00 0.41 PROT C ATOM 4 C LIG A 1 -0.751 0.792 -0.005 1.00 0.00 PROT C ATOM 5 C LIG A 1 0.001 -1.641 0.066 1.00 -0.22 PROT C ATOM 6 C LIG A 1 0.532 1.171 -0.065 1.00 -0.28 PROT C ATOM 7 C LIG A 1 1.275 -1.250 0.008 1.00 -0.20 PROT C ATOM 8 C LIG A 1 1.640 0.192 -0.062 1.00 0.43 PROT C ATOM 9 C LIG A 1 -1.893 1.734 -0.003 1.00 -0.45 PROT C ATOM 10 H LIG A 1 -0.305 -2.687 0.117 1.00 0.18 PROT H ATOM 11 H LIG A 1 0.839 2.216 -0.119 1.00 0.19 PROT H ATOM 12 H LIG A 1 2.118 -1.944 0.006 1.00 0.18 PROT H ATOM 13 H LIG A 1 -2.493 1.632 0.919 1.00 0.18 PROT H ATOM 14 H LIG A 1 -1.591 2.787 -0.085 1.00 0.16 PROT H ATOM 15 H LIG A 1 -2.589 1.523 -0.834 1.00 0.18 PROT H END Converted mol2 file using babel @<TRIPOS>MOLECULE A_lig1.pdb 15 15 0 0 0 SMALL GASTEIGER @<TRIPOS>ATOM 1 O -2.2640 -1.0200 0.1220 O.2 1 LIG1 -0.2876 2 O 2.7960 0.5380 -0.1130 O.2 1 LIG1 -0.2879 3 C -1.1140 -0.6590 0.0660 C.2 1 LIG1 0.1821 4 C -0.7510 0.7920 -0.0050 C.2 1 LIG1 -0.0002 5 C 0.0010 -1.6410 0.0660 C.2 1 LIG1 -0.0111 6 C 0.5320 1.1710 -0.0650 C.2 1 LIG1 -0.0084 7 C 1.2750 -1.2500 0.0080 C.2 1 LIG1 -0.0113 8 C 1.6400 0.1920 -0.0620 C.2 1 LIG1 0.1795 9 C -1.8930 1.7340 -0.0030 C.3 1 LIG1 -0.0360 10 H -0.3050 -2.6870 0.1170 H 1 LIG1 0.0657 11 H 0.8390 2.2160 -0.1190 H 1 LIG1 0.0659 12 H 2.1180 -1.9440 0.0060 H 1 LIG1 0.0657 13 H -2.4930 1.6320 0.9190 H 1 LIG1 0.0279 14 H -1.5910 2.7870 -0.0850 H 1 LIG1 0.0279 15 H -2.5890 1.5230 -0.8340 H 1 LIG1 0.0279 @<TRIPOS>BOND 1 15 9 1 2 11 6 1 3 2 8 2 4 14 9 1 5 6 8 1 6 6 4 2 7 8 7 1 8 4 9 1 9 4 3 1 10 9 13 1 11 12 7 1 12 7 5 2 13 3 5 1 14 3 1 2 15 5 10 1 -- View this message in context: http://forums.openbabel.org/Atomic-charge-changed-during-conversion-from-pdb-to-mol2-tp4659430.html Sent from the General discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ OpenBabel-discuss mailing list OpenBabel-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openbabel-discuss -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ OpenBabel-discuss mailing list OpenBabel-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openbabel-discuss