[gmx-users] Distance restraints

David spoel at xray.bmc.uu.se
Tue Oct 4 18:44:33 CEST 2005


On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 11:44 -0400, Bob Johnson wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> My system consists of an infinite carbon nanotube, a single stranded DNA
> molecule and water. I would like to constrain the distance between certain
> atoms of the DNA and the nanotube. However, I have three different topology
> files: one for the nanotube, one for the DNA, and one for the water. I would
> like to use the following distance restraint:
> 
> [bonds]
> 806  2167 6  0.3  30000

right now you cannot have bonded interactions between different
molecules. You'll have to merge the topologies into one. A script to do
this might dwell on the gromacs site.

> 
> The 6 is for the simple harmonic potential for the atomic separation. 806 is the
> atom number for a carbon nanotube atom and the 2167 is the atom number for a
> nitrogen on the DNA. Since I have three separate topology files I'm not sure
> where to put this statement. My main topology file is shown below.
> 
> ;Topology file
> 
> ;Biosensor force field parameters
> #include "ffbiosensor.itp"
> 
> ;Topology include files
> #include "13_0_12L.itp"
> #include "ssdna_seq1.itp"
> #include "water.itp"
> 
> 
> [ system ]
> biosensor
> 
> [ molecules ]
> ; name          number
> 13_0_12L        1
> ssdna_seq1      1
> water           13639
> 
> When putting the [ bonds ] statement here grompp generates the message:
> Fatal error: [ file "biosensor.top", line 24 ]:
>              Atom index (806) in bonds out of bounds (1-3)
> 
> Where should I define this bond at?
> Thanks,
> Bob Johnson
> PhD candidate
> Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
> University of Pennsylvania
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David.
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