[gmx-users] problem still lies regarding dssp

[Mark Abraham]

sangeeta kundu wrote:
> Dear All,
>  
>           I do not know whether I am interrupting you again and again by 
> asking the same question, but I am helpless , I can not detect my fault, 
> When I run the program DSSP it works fine, but while executing do_dssp 
> or my_dssp (as suggested by Yang) the program seems to be never ending, 
> intermediate files are prepared for some time, but I never got any .xpm 
> files, I can not understand whether my system is not working, or I am 
> making any mistake, but all the other programs of Gromacs like pdb2gmx, 
> editconf , genbox, grompp, mdrun etc are going on successfully, problem 
> lies only in case of dssp, I was suggested by Mark to try dssp 
> independently on a single snapshot extracted from the trajectory,  I 
> took the snapshot of the protein after 500ps  with the command *trjconv 
> -f md.xtc -s md.tpr -o time_500ps.pdb -dump 500*
> (I think the command is correct, if not I earnestly request you to 
> rectify my mistake), When I ran do_dssp on this single structure I 
> waited for 3 days, but it did not finish and seems to be neverending, 
> then I killed the program, In order to get that particular coloured plot 
> of secondary structure vs time which method should I adopt? Seeking your 
> help and thanks in advance.

It sounds like do_dssp is having problems calling dssp. We can't help 
you much further. Try a new computer system, or work out a way to call 
dssp "by hand" for the structures you care about.

Mark