[gmx-users] Charmm to Gromacs: Polyols force field [Justin]

Justin A. Lemkul jalemkul at vt.edu
Mon Aug 23 14:14:35 CEST 2010



Eudes Fileti wrote:
> Hello Justin, thank you for answering!
> I think I already have done what you suggested when I created my
> ffbonded.itp and .rtp  files.
> 
> I am sending a piece of my topology and ffbonded.itp files.
> Follows also the residue from .rtp and the configuration of glycol (.gro) 
> so you can consider where I might be wrong and what I still must do.
> Thanks again.
> 

I appreciate the detail, but partial topologies are not useful for diagnosing 
anything.  As I asked before, what is on line 40 of the topology?  Which 
specific bond does this correspond to?  What you need to determine is which bond 
type should be called and why it's not being found.

-Justin

> eef 
> 
> 
> !!!  topol.top  !!!
> ; Include forcefield parameters
> #include "charmm27.ff/forcefield.itp"
> 
> [ moleculetype ]
> ; Name            nrexcl
> Other               3
> 
> [ atoms ]
> ;   nr       type  resnr residue  atom   cgnr     charge       mass 
>  typeB    chargeB      massB
>      1       HCP1      1    PA2    HOA      1       0.42      1.008   ; 
> qtot 0.42
>      2      OC311      1    PA2    OHA      1      -0.65    15.9994   ; 
> qtot -0.23
>      3      CC322      1    PA2     CA      1       0.05     12.011   ; 
> qtot -0.18
>      4       HCA2      1    PA2    HA1      1       0.09      1.008   ; 
> qtot -0.09
>     ...
>     
> [ bonds ]
> ;  ai    aj funct            c0            c1            c2            c3
>     1     2     1 
>     2     3     1 
>     3     4     1 
>     ...
>     
> [ pairs ]
> ;  ai    aj funct            c0            c1            c2            c3
>     1     4     1 
>     1     5     1 
>     1     6     1 
>    ...
>    
> [ angles ]
> ;  ai    aj    ak funct            c0            c1            c2       
>      c3
>     1     2     3     5 
>     2     3     4     5 
>    ...
>    
> [ dihedrals ]
> ;  ai    aj    ak    al funct            c0            c1            c2 
>            c3            c4            c5
>     1     2     3     4     9 
>    ...
>    
> 
> !!! ffbonded.itp !!!
> [ bondtypes ]
> ; i      j     func        b0      kb
> OC311   HCP1    1       0.0960   456056.0  ; par22 OH1 H
> CC322   OC311   1       0.1420   334720.0  ; adm 11/08, glycerol
> CC322   HCA2    1       0.1111   258571.2  ; par22 HA CT2
> [ angletypes ]
> ; i       j       k    func       th0     cth      ub0       cub
> HCP1    OC311   CC312   5       106.00   412.40    0.0       0.00       
> ; og 1/06 EtOH IR fit
> [ dihedraltypes ]
> ; i     j       k       l       func    phi0    cp      mult
> HCP1    OC311   CC322   HCA2    9         0.0   0.75    3  ; og methanol
> 
> !!! file.rtp !!!
> 
> [ PA2 ]
> ; Glycol
>  [ atoms ]
>    HOA    HCP1    0.420    1
>    OHA   OC311   -0.650    1
>     CA   CC322    0.050    1
>    HA1    HCA2    0.090    1
>    HA2    HCA2    0.090    1
>     CB   CC322    0.050    2
>    HB1    HCA2    0.090    2
>    HB2    HCA2    0.090    2
>    OHB   OC311   -0.650    2
>    HOB    HCP1    0.420    2
> 
>  [ bonds ]
>   OHA    HOA
>   OHA    CA
>    CA    HA1
>    CA    HA2
>    CB    CA
>    CB    HB1
>    CB    HB2
>    OHB   CB
>    HOB   OHB
> 
> !!! conf.gro !!!
> GROningen MAchine for Chemical Simulation
>    10
>     1PA2    HOA    1  -0.248  -0.048   0.000
>     1PA2    OHA    2  -0.177   0.017   0.000
>     1PA2     CA    3  -0.052  -0.052   0.000
>     1PA2    HA1    4  -0.041  -0.115   0.089
>     1PA2    HA2    5  -0.041  -0.115  -0.089
>     1PA2     CB    6   0.057   0.054   0.000
>     1PA2    HB1    7   0.046   0.117  -0.089
>     1PA2    HB2    8   0.046   0.117   0.089
>     1PA2    OHB    9   0.182  -0.015   0.000
>     1PA2    HOB   10   0.253   0.049   0.000
>    3.00000   3.00000   3.00000
> 
> 
> _______________________________________
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>       3. Re: Charmm to Gromacs: Polyols force field (Justin A. Lemkul)
>       4. PMF (abdul wadood)
>       5. Re: please, how edr data is xdr packed? (Sander Pronk)
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>     Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 17:52:46 +0200
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>     Hi,
> 
>     thank you for your answer. What is then epsilon_r ?
> 
>     regards.
> 
> 
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>     Message: 2
>     Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 14:42:43 -0300
>     From: Eudes Fileti <fileti at ufabc.edu.br <mailto:fileti at ufabc.edu.br>>
>     Subject: [gmx-users] Charmm to Gromacs: Polyols force field
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>     Olá pessoal,
> 
>     Recently, McKerrel published his CHARMM force field to polyols
>     (JCTC, 2009,
>     5, 1315).
>     I am very interested in using it in GROMACS.
> 
>     For this, I began the transfer of the parameters with the following
>     recipe:
> 
>     1) All atom types were added to the atomtypes.atp file;
>     2) All bonded parameters (bonds, angles, ub, dihedral and impropers)
>     were added to the ffbonded.itp file;
>     3) van der Waals and Coulomb parameters were inserted properly
>     in ffnonbonded.itp;
>     4) The residues were created in a new file named polyols.rtp.
> 
>     Well, pdb2gmx works fine! It generates the restraints file (posre.itp),
>     configuration file
>     (conf.gro) and topology file (topol.itp).  But when I run it in
>     grommp, the
>     default for
>     parameters are not found. Something like:
> 
>     ERROR 6 [file topol.top, line 40]:
>      No default Bond types
> 
>     I know I can insert the parameters by hand in each .top file
>     generated by
>     pdb2gmx.
>     But what I need to do, so that grompp recognizes the default values
>     automatically.
> 
>     Did I forgot some file? I'm making some mistake?
> 
>     Any suggestion is welcome!
> 
>     Muito obrigado!
>     eef
> 
>     _______________________________________
>     Eudes Eterno Fileti
>     Centro de Ciências Naturais e Humanas
>     Universidade Federal do ABC — CCNH
>     Av. dos Estados, 5001
>     Santo André - SP - Brasil
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>     Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 13:46:39 -0400
>     From: "Justin A. Lemkul" <jalemkul at vt.edu <mailto:jalemkul at vt.edu>>
>     Subject: Re: [gmx-users] Charmm to Gromacs: Polyols force field
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> 
>     Eudes Fileti wrote:
>      > Olá pessoal,
>      >
>      > Recently, McKerrel published his CHARMM force field to polyols (JCTC,
>      > 2009, 5, 1315).
>      > I am very interested in using it in GROMACS.
>      >
>      > For this, I began the transfer of the parameters with the
>     following recipe:
>      >
>      > 1) All atom types were added to the atomtypes.atp file;
>      > 2) All bonded parameters (bonds, angles, ub, dihedral and impropers)
>      > were added to the ffbonded.itp file;
>      > 3) van der Waals and Coulomb parameters were inserted properly
>      > in ffnonbonded.itp;
>      > 4) The residues were created in a new file named polyols.rtp.
>      >
>      > Well, pdb2gmx works fine! It generates the restraints file
>     (posre.itp),
>      > configuration file
>      > (conf.gro) and topology file (topol.itp).  But when I run it in
>     grommp,
>      > the default for
>      > parameters are not found. Something like:
>      >
>      > ERROR 6 [file topol.top, line 40]:
>      >   No default Bond types
>      >
>      > I know I can insert the parameters by hand in each .top file
>     generated
>      > by pdb2gmx.
>      > But what I need to do, so that grompp recognizes the default values
>      > automatically.
>      >
>      > Did I forgot some file? I'm making some mistake?
>      >
> 
>     Look on line 40 of the topology and see which atoms grompp is
>     complaining about.
>      You likely forgot to define the parameters for that particular bond
>     type.
> 
>     -Justin
> 
>      > Any suggestion is welcome!
>      >
>      > Muito obrigado!
>      > eef
>      >
>      > _______________________________________
>      > Eudes Eterno Fileti
>      > Centro de Ciências Naturais e Humanas
>      > Universidade Federal do ABC — CCNH
>      > Av. dos Estados, 5001
>      > Santo André - SP - Brasil
>      > CEP 09210-971
>      > +55.11.4996-0196
>      > http://fileti.ufabc.edu.br
>      >
> 
>     --
>     ========================================
> 
>     Justin A. Lemkul
>     Ph.D. Candidate
>     ICTAS Doctoral Scholar
>     MILES-IGERT Trainee
>     Department of Biochemistry
>     Virginia Tech
>     Blacksburg, VA
>     jalemkul[at]vt.edu <http://vt.edu> | (540) 231-9080
>     http://www.bevanlab.biochem.vt.edu/Pages/Personal/justin
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>     Message: 4
>     Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 06:23:39 +0000
>     From: abdul wadood <wadoodbiochemist at hotmail.com
>     <mailto:wadoodbiochemist at hotmail.com>>
>     Subject: [gmx-users] PMF
>     To: gromacs <gmx-users at gromacs.org <mailto:gmx-users at gromacs.org>>
>     Message-ID: <BAY121-W7C84BC40D94BEBF163356D0820 at phx.gbl>
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> 
>     Hi, All
> 
>     I am trying to calculate pmf for enzyme ligand complex using the
>     tutorial of umbrella sampling.
>     I have successfully created the unit cell around the protein and
>     have solvated. The ions were also added by genion.
>     But when I run the minimization step with the command
>     grompp -f minim.mdp -c solv_ions.gro -p 3JY0.top -o em.tpr
>     the following error comes
> 
> 
>     Fatal error:
>     Molecule type 'NA+' contains no atoms
> 
> 
>     I tried my best to solve the problem but could no succeeded.
>     Any help to solve this problem will be highly appreciated.
>     The topology file is attached.
> 
>     Thanks in advace
> 
>     Many regards
> 
>     Abdul Wadood,
>     Research Scholar,
>     Dr.Panjwani Center for Molecular Medicine and
>     Drug Research,
>     International Center for Chemical and
>     Biological Science,
>     University of Karachi, Karachi-75720, Pakistan.
>     Email:wadoodbiochemist at hotmail.com
>     <mailto:Email%3Awadoodbiochemist at hotmail.com>
> 
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>     Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 09:56:26 +0200
>     From: Sander Pronk <pronk at cbr.su.se <mailto:pronk at cbr.su.se>>
>     Subject: Re: [gmx-users] please, how edr data is xdr packed?
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>     As David said, the reading/writing is done in src/gmxlib/enxio.c,
>     but you could also read edr files indirectly through gmxdump: that
>     should also give you an idea of the type of information in those files.
> 
> 
> 
>     On Aug 22, 2010, at 13:14 , Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote:
> 
>      > Hi there,
>      >
>      > I am trying to use python xdrlib module to read edr files but not
>     knowing how the data is packed using the xdr protocol makes my work
>     very difficult, if not impossible.
>      >
>      > Would someone kindly tell me how data is packed in the edr file?
>     Or where it is the gromacs code so I can try to figure out a way?
>      >
>      > I've read http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1832.html and for
>     reference, see topic "6. AN EXAMPLE OF AN XDR DATA DESCRIPTION".
>      >
>      > My other option would be using a parsing code to read g_energy
>     output but this seems very silly.
>      >
>      > Many thanks in advance,
>      >
>      > Alan
>      >
>      > --
>      > Alan Wilter S. da Silva, D.Sc. - CCPN Research Associate
>      > Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.
>      > 80 Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA, UK.
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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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