[gmx-users] topology file for DNA molecule

tenghl hailong at seas.ucla.edu
Fri Oct 1 04:16:22 CEST 2004


Hello Andrey,

Thanks for your suggestion. The following is copied from my pdb file:

ATOM      1  P     G A   1      -8.767   1.872  20.672  1.00  0.00              
ATOM      2  O1P   G A   1      -9.837   2.863  20.452  1.00  0.00              
ATOM      3  O2P   G A   1      -8.868   0.621  19.882  1.00  0.00              
ATOM      4  O5'   G A   1      -7.342   2.542  20.422  1.00  0.00              
ATOM      5  C5'   G A   1      -6.864   3.537  21.362  1.00  0.00              
ATOM      6  C4'   G A   1      -6.051   4.581  20.632  1.00  0.00              
ATOM      7  O4'   G A   1      -4.700   4.060  20.422  1.00  0.00              
ATOM      8  C3'   G A   1      -6.531   4.958  19.232  1.00  0.00              
ATOM      9  O3'   G A   1      -6.090   6.256  18.842  1.00  0.00              
ATOM     10  C2'   G A   1      -5.859   3.916  18.352  1.00  0.00              
............
ATOM    765  H3'   C B  12       8.969  -0.493  18.021  1.00  0.00              
ATOM    766  H6    C B  12       5.576  -2.302  17.949  1.00  0.00              
ATOM    767  H5    C B  12       3.536  -3.683  18.051  1.00  0.00              
ATOM    768  H41   C B  12       0.211  -2.100  18.439  1.00  0.00              
ATOM    769  H42   C B  12       1.120  -3.622  18.243  1.00  0.00  


I followed your suggestion and the pdb file looks like

ATOM      1  P     DGUA A   1      -8.767   1.872  20.672  1.00  0.00
ATOM      2  O1P   DGUA A   1      -9.837   2.863  20.452  1.00  0.00
ATOM      3  O2P   DGUA A   1      -8.868   0.621  19.882  1.00  0.00
ATOM      4  O5'   DGUA A   1      -7.342   2.542  20.422  1.00  0.00
ATOM      5  C5'   DGUA A   1      -6.864   3.537  21.362  1.00  0.00
ATOM      6  C4'   DGUA A   1      -6.051   4.581  20.632  1.00  0.00
ATOM      7  O4'   DGUA A   1      -4.700   4.060  20.422  1.00  0.00
ATOM      8  C3'   DGUA A   1      -6.531   4.958  19.232  1.00  0.00
ATOM      9  O3'   DGUA A   1      -6.090   6.256  18.842  1.00  0.00
ATOM     10  C2'   DGUA A   1      -5.859   3.916  18.352  1.00  0.00
......
ATOM    765  H3'   DCYT B  12       8.969  -0.493  18.021  1.00  0.00
ATOM    766  H6    DCYT B  12       5.576  -2.302  17.949  1.00  0.00
ATOM    767  H5    DCYT B  12       3.536  -3.683  18.051  1.00  0.00
ATOM    768  H41   DCYT B  12       0.211  -2.100  18.439  1.00  0.00
ATOM    769  H42   DCYT B  12       1.120  -3.622  18.243  1.00  0.00


However, I got the following error this time. Is there anything wrong with my pdb file?

Error message:

Opening library file /space/gromacs/share/top/FF.dat

Select the Force Field:
 0: GROMOS96 43a1 Forcefield (official distribution)
 1: GROMOS96 43b1 Vacuum Forcefield (official distribution)
 2: GROMOS96 43a2 Forcefield (development) (improved alkane dihedrals)
 3: OPLS-AA/L all-atom force field (2001 aminoacid dihedrals)
 4: Gromacs Forcefield (see manual)
 5: gmx Forcefield with hydrogens for NMR stuff (Do NOT use for new runs)
0
Looking whether force field file ffG43a1.rtp exists
Opening library file /space/gromacs/share/top/ffG43a1.rtp
Opening library file /space/gromacs/share/top/aminoacids.dat
Reading test.pdb...
Read 768 atoms
Opening library file /space/gromacs/share/top/xlateat.dat
23 out of 23 lines of xlateat.dat converted succesfully
Analyzing pdb file
Fatal error: Chain identifier 'U' was used in two non-sequential blocks (residue 3, atom 66)


Hailong

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On 9/30/2004 at 10:45 AM Andrey V. Golovin wrote:

>Hello tenghl,
>
>9/30/2004, 8:42 AM you wrote:
>
>first of all could you send me links for papers =) as i know gromacs
>was used only for trajectory analysis.
>And certainly you can use G43a1 ff. But first you should rename A to
>DADE, C to DCYT, G to DGUA, T to DTHY.
>
>tenghl> Hello Andrey,
>
>tenghl> Thank you for you reply. Is there any method that I
>tenghl> can use GROMACS to simulate DNA molecule?
>tenghl> I have read several papers which talk about the
>tenghl> simulation of DNA, and the software they used is GROMACS.
>
>tenghl> Thanks,
>
>tenghl> Hailong
>
>tenghl> *********** REPLY SEPARATOR  ***********
>
>tenghl> On 9/30/2004 at 10:15 AM Andrey V. Golovin wrote:
>
>>>Hello Discussion,
>>>
>>>9/30/2004, 8:15 AM you wrote:
>>>
>>>tenghl> Dear Gromacs users,?
>tenghl>> ?
>tenghl>> I am trying to build a
>>>topology file for a DNA model
>>>tenghl> using pdb2gmx -f file.pdb -p file.top -o file.gro.
>>>tenghl> I used OPLS force field and got the following error, any
>>>ideas??
>tenghl>> Sorting it all out...
>>>tenghl> Opening library file /space/gromacs/share/top/ffoplsaa.hdb
>>>tenghl> Opening library file /space/gromacs/share/top/ffoplsaa-n.tdb
>>>tenghl> Opening library file /space/gromacs/share/top/ffoplsaa-c.tdb
>>>tenghl> Processing chain 1 (438 atoms, 20 residues)
>>>tenghl> Opening library file /space/gromacs/share/top/specbond.dat
>>>tenghl> 5 out of 5 lines of specbond.dat converted succesfully
>>>tenghl> There are 0 donors and 0 acceptors
>>>tenghl> There are 0 hydrogen bonds
>>>tenghl> Fatal error: Residue 'A5' not found in residue topology database
>>>
>>>This happened because OPLSA ff in gromacs doesn't contain any DNA/RNA
>>>residues in rtp file. We added it and now busy with checking. Checking
>>>is necessary because we added some dihedrals. I hope soon this files
>>>can be found in contribution section.
>>>
>>>tenghl> ?
>tenghl>> Thanks
>>>tenghl> ?
>tenghl>> Hailong
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>--
>>>Best regards,
>>>Andrey                          mailto:golovin at genebee.msu.su
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