[gmx-users] .itp file for DMSO needs to be changed - bug report

Justin A. Lemkul jalemkul at vt.edu
Fri Apr 30 13:57:46 CEST 2010



Esteban Gabriel Vega Hissi wrote:
> Hi Justin,
> 
> You're right. The parameters in ffG53a6 are different from dmso.itp 
> file. I'll compare the results with the new simulations.
> By the way, do you know if ffG53a6 DMSO parameters are updated to those 
> described in the paper you mention?
> 

Not in any pre-built .itp file that I know of, but the .rtp entry for DMSO in 
ffG53a6.rtp appears to have the correct charges.  I assume, if you check the 
atom types, that these are correct, as well.

-Justin

> Thanks
> 
> Esteban
> 
> --
> 
> 2010/4/30 Justin A. Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu <mailto:jalemkul at vt.edu>>
> 
> 
> 
>     Esteban Gabriel Vega Hissi wrote:
> 
>         Hi,
>         I did the same and the simulations work properly! I think it's a
>         matter of labels.
> 
> 
>     Not entirely.  It is a matter of force fields, which sometimes have
>     different atom nomenclature.  The dmso.itp file assumes one is using
>     ffgmx.  If using Gromos96, the atom types, and perhaps even some of
>     the parameters might have to be changed.  There is a paper published
>     about a very good DMSO model using Gromos96; I would suggest
>     checking the parameters therein to be sure you're actually using a
>     valid model, and not some Frankenforcefield :)
> 
>     -Justin
> 
> 
>         Esteban
>         UNSL
>         Argentina
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>         2010/4/30 Saikat Banerjee <banskt.saikat at gmail.com
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> 
>            Hi,
> 
>            I presume that there is a bug in gromacs-4.0.5.
> 
>            When tried to run simulations with DMSO molecules there was
>         an error
>            report, which said:
> 
>            "Fatal error:
>            Atomtype SD not found"
> 
>            I checked extensively for the problem, and found that there is a
>            small error in the dmso.itp file present in
>            $GROMACS_INSTALL_DIR/share/gromacs/top/
> 
>            Line 5 - 10 in dmso.itp file reads,
> 
>            [ atoms ]
>            ;   nr    type   resnr  residu  atom    cgnr    charge
>                1     SD     1      DMSO    SD      1        0.139
>                2     CD     1      DMSO    CD1     1        0.16
>                3     OD     1      DMSO    OD      1       -0.459
>                4     CD     1      DMSO    CD2     1        0.16
> 
>            I needed to change that to -
> 
>            [ atoms ]
>            ;   nr    type   resnr  residu  atom    cgnr    charge  mass
>                1     SDmso  1      DMSO    SD      1        0.139  32.06000
>                2     CDmso  1      DMSO    CD1     1        0.16   15.03500
>                3     ODmso  1      DMSO    OD      1       -0.459  15.99940
>                4     CDmso  1      DMSO    CD2     1        0.16   15.03500
> 
>            Please note that the name of the type needed to be changed.
> 
>            I am not sure if I was doing something wrong, or something was
>            erroneous in GROMACS. However, the above changes makes it work.
> 
>            I just thought I would report this issue so that users know where
>            the problem is. I would like to request the GROMACS team to take
>            note of it and do the needful.
> 
>            Thanks,
> 
>            Saikat B.
> 
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Justin A. Lemkul
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Department of Biochemistry
Virginia Tech
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