[gmx-users] genaral questions

David spoel at xray.bmc.uu.se
Thu Nov 10 21:09:28 CET 2005


On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 13:50 -0600, Sven Huttenhouse wrote:
> Dear Dr. David
> thank you for your help.
> I checked the charges in the top file and I got the following:
> [ atoms ]
> ;   nr       type  resnr residue  atom   cgnr     charge       mass  typeB   
>   chargeB      massB
>      1   opls_287      1    GLY      N      1       -0.3    14.0067   ; qtot 
> -0.3
>      2   opls_290      1    GLY     H1     1       0.33      1.008   ; qtot 
> 0.03
>      3   opls_290      1    GLY     H2     1       0.33      1.008   ; qtot 
> 0.36
>      4   opls_290      1    GLY     H3     1       0.33      1.008   ; qtot 
> 0.69
>      5   opls_298      1    GLY     CA     1       0.09     12.011   ; qtot 
> 0.78
>      6   opls_140      1    GLY    HA1     1       0.06      1.008   ; qtot 
> 0.84
>      7   opls_140      1    GLY    HA2     1       0.06      1.008   ; qtot 
> 0.9
>      8   opls_271      1    GLY      C       2        0.7     12.011   ; 
> qtot 1.6
>      9   opls_272      1    GLY     O1      2       -0.8    15.9994   ; qtot 
> 0.8
>     10   opls_272     1    GLY     O2      2       -0.8    15.9994   ; qtot 
> 0
> the some of the charges is not -1 nor 1 in both groups. can I consider this 
> a zwitterion?
Yes.

> I increased the distance from 0.1 to 0.52 and it still give me the same 
> resigue number. is that normal?
There is no relation between the two.

> 
> I ususally change the number of glycine molecules to 200 immediatly after I 
> generate the .gro, .top and .itp files from the origenal .pdb file but I 
> give the topology file a different name like the origenal file has the name 
> glyc.top and the modified file named 200glyc.top is this ok?
Yes.

> I use this file in the genbox and it work fine.
> 
> thank you again for your reply.
> 
> kind regards
> Sven
> 
> >From: David <spoel at xray.bmc.uu.se>
> >Reply-To: Discussion list for GROMACS users <gmx-users at gromacs.org>
> >To: Discussion list for GROMACS users <gmx-users at gromacs.org>
> >Subject: Re: [gmx-users] genaral questions
> >Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 20:25:55 +0100
> >
> >On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 13:04 -0600, Sven Huttenhouse wrote:
> > > Dear all
> > > I'm trying do a MD simulation for glycine crystallization. I have a pdb 
> >file
> > > for glycine and I converted it to a .pdb file for zwitterion using 
> >pdb2gmx
> > > program as follow:
> > > pdb2gmx -f glyc.pdb -o zwitglyc.pdb -inter
> > > I chosed force field 3 and zwitterion glycine NH3+ and COO-
> > > I reviewed the topology file for the zwitterion but it didn't show a 
> >charge
> > > of -1 on the Oxygen atom nor +1 on the Nitrogene.
> >The charges are spread out over the NH3 and COO, check the total charge
> >in the comment on the right.
> >
> > >
> > > **Is that normal? and how will I make sure that I gor a zwitterion?**
> > >
> > > I then generated a .gro, .top and .itp files from the zwitterion file 
> >using
> > > pdb2gmx as follow:
> > > pdb2gmx -f zwitglyc.pdb -o zwitglyc.gro -p zwitglyc.top -i zwitglyc.itp
> > > -inter
> > > I then chosed force field 3 and zwitterion glycine NH3+ and COO-. I then
> > > generated 200 molecules from thr .gro file I have using genconf as 
> >follow:
> > > genconf -f zwitglyc.gro -o 200zwitglyc.gro -nbox 5 5 8 -dist 0.1 0.1 0.1
> >Dist 0.1 is good only if the original box is large enough, otherwise
> >increase it.
> >
> > > I got 200 separated molecules but with the same residue number.
> >Perfect. Now go to your topol.top file and change protein from 1 to 200.
> > >
> > > **How can I make sure that gromacs consider them separate molecules? and 
> >how
> > > can I generate molecules with different resodue numbers?**
> >DOn't worry this will be fine after EM or MD.
> >
> > >
> > > I then thought It will be better if I generate 200 molecules in a .pdb 
> >file
> > > and I did so using genconf but again I got separate molecules with the 
> >same
> > > residue number (200zwitglyc.pdb).
> >Don't do it. Follow recipe above.
> >
> > > I tried to use this file to generate the .gro, .top and .itp files for 
> >200
> > > molecules usinf pdb2gmx as follow:
> > > pdb2gmx -f 200zwitglyc.pdb -o 200zwitglyc.gro -p 200zwitglyc.top -i
> > > 200zwitglyc.itp -inter
> > > but I got files that contain one molecule only.
> > >
> > > ** why did I get files with one molecule although they were generated 
> >from a
> > > file containing 200 molecules?**
> >Since pdb2gmx thinks it is a single chain. If you had 200 different
> >chain labels in the file (impossible) then it might work.
> > >
> > > it will be great if someone can help me.
> > >
> > > Kind regards
> > > Sven
> > >
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