[gmx-users] OPLS-AA forcefield parameters

Jacob Harvey j.harv8 at gmail.com
Sat Apr 4 21:09:10 CEST 2009


Thank you for your help Justin. I have corrected my naming problem in the
pdb file. However, I am still getting errors. It does not seem to recognize
the residues. BUT I dont actually have "residues" in my system, because I am
not modeling a protein. So I am not sure what to put in the residue name
column. Gromacs does work on molecules that are not proteins correct? My
molecules are histidine like so I tried putting HIS as the residue name, but
I got the error:

"Fatal error:
Residue 'H' not found in residue topology database"

When I dont put anything in that column I get the error:

"Fatal error:
Residue '' not found in residue topology database"

And when I just generically call everything solvent and put SOL in that
column I get:

"Fatal error:
Residue 'S' not found in residue topology database"

You get the picture here. Does anyone have any solutions to my residue
naming problem? Thank you.

here is my pdb file:

HETATM    1  CT          2      -4.438   3.334   2.988
HETATM    2  CT          2       0.588   3.313   0.517
HETATM    3  CT          2       5.476   3.310  -2.216
HETATM    4  HC          2      -4.134   2.590   3.731
HETATM    5  HC          2      -5.525   3.438   3.047
HETATM    6  HC          2      -3.996   4.291   3.276
HETATM    7  HC          2       1.480   3.111   1.117
HETATM    8  HC          2      -0.266   3.349   1.200
HETATM    9  HC          2       0.702   4.307   0.076
HETATM   10  HC          2       6.375   3.525  -1.633
HETATM   11  HC          2       4.648   3.862  -1.761
HETATM   12  HC          2       5.628   3.709  -3.223
HETATM   13  CT          2      -3.996   2.922   1.581
HETATM   14  HC          2      -2.902   2.862   1.545
HETATM   15  HC          2      -4.281   3.703   0.865
HETATM   16  CT          2       0.394   2.242  -0.557
HETATM   17  HC          2      -0.485   2.486  -1.167
HETATM   18  HC          2       1.250   2.252  -1.242
HETATM   19  CT          2       5.188   1.805  -2.247
HETATM   20  HC          2       6.018   1.286  -2.742
HETATM   21  HC          2       4.300   1.615  -2.864
HETATM   22  CT          2      -4.587   1.582   1.127
HETATM   23  HC          2      -5.682   1.638   1.161
HETATM   24  HC          2      -4.298   0.792   1.828
HETATM   25  CT          2       0.235   0.836   0.028
HETATM   26  HC          2      -0.616   0.818   0.720
HETATM   27  HC          2       1.117   0.581   0.625
HETATM   28  CT          2       4.981   1.206  -0.852
HETATM   29  HC          2       4.152   1.720  -0.350

Jacob Harvey

On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Justin A. Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu> wrote:

>
>
> Jacob Harvey wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I am trying to use the OPLS-AA force field to model some imidazole
>> containing compounds. I've noticed that imidazole units are referenced in
>> the ffoplsaa.atp file as the following:
>>
>> opls_557   14.00670  ; N1  in imidazole
>>  opls_558   12.01100  ; C2  in imidazole
>>  opls_559   14.00670  ; N3  in imidazole
>>  opls_560   12.01100  ; C4  in imidazole
>>  opls_561   12.01100  ; C5  in imidazole
>>  opls_562    1.00800  ; H1  in imidazole
>>  opls_563    1.00800  ; H2  in imidazole
>>  opls_564    1.00800  ; H4  in imidazole
>>  opls_565    1.00800  ; H5  in imidazole
>>
>> But there are no parameters for these atoms in the ffoplsaa.rtp file. Does
>> anyone know how I can go about naming these atoms in my pdb file? Thank you
>> in advance.
>>
>>
> Not every compound is present in a .rtp file.  Check out its contents and
> you'll see what it has - pretty much just amino acids.  The charges on each
> atom are not specific to an atom type, they are specific to a chemical
> species for which the parameterization scheme has been conducted.
>  Lennard-Jones parameters are specified in ffoplsaanb.itp.
>
> I suggest a thorough read of Chapter 5 of the manual to understand the
> contents of these database-type files, and how they are used in assembling a
> topology.
>
> -Justin
>
>  Jacob Harvey
>>
>> --
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>> Jacob Harvey
>>
>> Graduate Student
>>
>> University of Massachusetts Amherst
>>
>> j.harv8 at gmail.com <mailto:j.harv8 at gmail.com>
>>
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