[gmx-users] Membrane protein tutorial

Pawan Kumar pawan.chinari at gmail.com
Thu Apr 9 12:21:51 CEST 2009


Respected Sir,

Greetings from Pawan.
It has worked now.
I dint edit the index file before also. The problem was with the .mdp file.
It was recognising lipids as POP and I gave as POPC in the .mdp file. Now
there are no more errors.
Thanks a lot.

Thanking you,
Pawan

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Justin A. Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu> wrote:

>
>
> Pawan Kumar wrote:
>
>> Hello Sir,
>>
>> The whole point in making an index file was to merge the sol and cl- ions.
>> If i put popc also in the index file then it wont make any much useful
>> group because lipids needs to be defined in a different group as I have read
>> in various archives. Please do correct me if I am wrong.
>>
>>
> What you need is a POPC_CL- group in addition to the other standard groups.
> There is a page in my tutorial (which you referenced earlier) that describes
> exactly how to do this:
>
>
> http://www.bevanlab.biochem.vt.edu/Pages/Personal/justin/gmx-tutorials/membrane_protein/06_equil.html
>
> So your index file should contain System, all the relevant protein groups,
> POPC, SOL, CL-, and SOL_CL-.  If you are considering manually modifying this
> file in some way (as I am guessing you have), don't.
>
> -Justin
>
>  Thanking you,
>> Pawan
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Dallas B. Warren <
>> Dallas.Warren at pharm.monash.edu.au <mailto:
>> Dallas.Warren at pharm.monash.edu.au>> wrote:
>>
>>    Well, as the error says, popc isn't defined in the index file.    Seems
>> grompp is looking for a popc entry in the index file, and
>>    can't find it.  So, I would hazard to say, you need to define it.
>>        Catch ya,
>>
>>    Dr. Dallas Warren
>>    Department of Pharmaceutical Biology and Pharmacology
>>    Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University
>>    381 Royal Parade, Parkville VIC 3010
>>    dallas.warren at pharm.monash.edu.au
>>    <mailto:dallas.warren at pharm.monash.edu.au>
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>>        *To:* jalemkul at vt.edu <mailto:jalemkul at vt.edu>; Discussion list
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>>        for GROMACS users
>>        *Subject:* Re: [gmx-users] Membrane protein tutorial
>>
>>        Hello sir,
>>
>>        Thanks for such a explanatory tutorial.
>>        I am stuck with one error now.
>>        I have protein, popc, sol and cl- in my system.
>>        I have merged the sol and cl- using make_ndx.
>>        But when I run grompp I get the error like this "popc not
>>        defined in the index file".
>>        The grompp command : grompp -f pr.mdp -c box_em.pdb -p topol.top
>>        -o box_pr.tpr
>>        Any suggestions please.
>>        *
>>        pr.mdp file :*
>>        title               =  protein in popc bilayer
>>        cpp                 =  /usr/bin/cpp
>>        define              =  -DPOSRES -DPOSRES_LIPID
>>        constraints         =  all-bonds
>>        constraint-algorithm=  Lincs
>>        integrator          =  md
>>        dt                  =  0.002          nsteps              =  5000
>>        nstcomm             =  1
>>        nstxout             =  50
>>        nstvout             =  1000
>>        nstfout             =  0
>>        nstlog              =  10
>>        nstenergy           =  10
>>        nstlist             =  10
>>        ns_type             =  grid
>>        rlist               =  1
>>        coulombtype         =  PME
>>        rcoulomb            =  1
>>        vdw-type            =  Cut-off
>>        rvdw                =  1
>>        ; Berendsen temperature coupling is on in two groups
>>        tcoupl              = berendsen
>>        tc_grps             = Protein POPC SOL_CL-
>>        tau_t               = 0.1 0.1 0.1
>>        ref_t               = 300 300 300
>>        ; Energy monitoring
>>        energygrps        =  Protein POPC SOL_CL-
>>        ; Pressure coupling is on
>>        ;Pcoupl              =  berendsen
>>        tau_p               =  2.0 2.0
>>        compressibility     =  4.5e-5 4.5e-5
>>        ref_p               =  1.0 1.0
>>        Pcoupl_type         =  semiisotropic
>>        ; Generate velocites is on at 300 K.
>>        gen_vel             =  yes
>>        gen_temp            =  300.0
>>        gen_seed            =  173529
>>
>>        Thanking you,
>>        Pawan
>>
>>
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