[gmx-users] genbox

Justin A. Lemkul jalemkul at vt.edu
Wed Apr 21 14:31:11 CEST 2010



shahid nayeem wrote:
> I was also trying to put more than one protein in one simulation box. I 
> was able to do it with genconf but it appears that the addition is in 
> very ordered manner if one looks .gro file in VMD. How can I add these 
> protein in disordered random orientation.

That's certainly what genconf does.  You can apply a random rotation to your 
molecules with genconf -rot, but I don't know if that will remove any of the 
regularity in overall position.

-Justin

> msnayeem
> 
>  
> On 4/20/10, *Justin A. Lemkul* <jalemkul at vt.edu 
> <mailto:jalemkul at vt.edu>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>     fahimeh bafti wrote:
> 
>         Thanks :)
>         but I couldn't manage with that, it makes the same error with
>         editconf as well, the problem was related to having more than
>         one residue inside insert.gro
> 
> 
>     editconf should not have a problem placing multi-residue molecules
>     within a box.  That is its main function, so I can only assume you
>     did something wrong.
> 
>         I did it at the end with genconf
> 
>         genconf  -nbox 2 2 2 (as u want)  -f  file.gro  -o
>         file_replicate.pdb
> 
>         it will simply replicate the unit.
> 
> 
>     That works.  Glad you found a solution.
> 
>     -Justin
> 
>         Fahimeh
> 
>          > Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 09:12:44 -0400
>          > From: jalemkul at vt.edu <mailto:jalemkul at vt.edu>
>          > To: gmx-users at gromacs.org <mailto:gmx-users at gromacs.org>
>          > Subject: Re: [gmx-users] genbox
>          >
>          >
>          >
>          > fahimeh bafti wrote:
>          > > Thank you Justin
>          > > but I end up with a new error. now in the insert.pdp file I
>         have a
>          > > molecule which I need to add 4 copy of that inside the
>         solute.pdb
>          > > genbox_d -ci insert.pdb -nmol 4 -cp solute.pdb
>          > >
>          > > but it gave me:
>          > >
>          > > Fatal error:
>          > > more then one residue in insert molecules
>          > > program terminated
>          > >
>          >
>          > Then you have two options:
>          >
>          > 1. Use the development (git) version of the code, which I
>         believe can now deal
>          > with multi-residue molecules.
>          > 2. Use editconf to position all the components of your system.
>          >
>          > You could, I suppose, hack your "insert.pdb" to contain one
>         residue (i.e.,
>          > through renaming and renumbering) and then convert it back,
>         but that sounds like
>          > a mess. Probably #2 is the easiest.
>          >
>          > -Justin
>          >
>          > > Fahimeh
>          > >
>          > >
>          > > > Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 07:10:59 -0400
>          > > > From: jalemkul at vt.edu <mailto:jalemkul at vt.edu>
>          > > > To: gmx-users at gromacs.org <mailto:gmx-users at gromacs.org>
>          > > > Subject: Re: [gmx-users] genbox
>          > > >
>          > > >
>          > > >
>          > > > fahimeh bafti
>          > > > > Hello,
>          > > > >
>          > > > > I want to use a file.pdb which has 8 chain of
>         polypeptide, each chain
>          > > > > contains 6 residues. I need to expand it to 12 chains
>         of 6 rsidues
>          > > so I
>          > > > > need to add 4 chains or in the other word 24 residues.
>         I think I
>          > > have to
>          > > > > use genbox, so I make another copy of file.pdb and
>         rename it to
>          > > > > insert.pdb and i used this command, but it doesn't work.
>          > > > >
>          > > > > genbox -cp file.pdb -ci insert.pdb -nmole 24 -o out.gro
>          > > > >
>          > > > > can anybody help me?
>          > > >
>          > > > The implication with genbox -ci -nmol is that the
>         coordinate file
>          > > passed to -ci
>          > > > contains one molecule, and an additional -nmol molecules are
>          > > inserted. So if
>          > > > you already have 8, you need a coordinate file with one
>         polypeptide
>          > > and then:
>          > > >
>          > > > genbox -ci insert.pdb -nmol 4
>          > > >
>          > > > Note in the documentation that -nmol refers to the number of
>          > > molecules, not a
>          > > > number of residues, which I think is the root of your
>         problem.
>          > > >
>          > > > -Justin
>          > > >
>          > > > >
>          > > > > Fahimeh
>          > > > >
>          > > > >
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Justin A. Lemkul
Ph.D. Candidate
ICTAS Doctoral Scholar
MILES-IGERT Trainee
Department of Biochemistry
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA
jalemkul[at]vt.edu | (540) 231-9080
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