[gmx-users] Energy minimisation problems - coordinate file and topology file not matching.

Justin A. Lemkul jalemkul at vt.edu
Wed Sep 22 14:37:00 CEST 2010



Natalie Stephenson wrote:
> Ok ... think I've worked out what's happened ...
> There were two 'SOL' groups.  So when replacing solvent with ions it has 
> added double the amount of ions to the topol.top file.  Think I'll go 
> back a couple of steps and try to sort out why there are two 'SOL' groups. 

Were there water molecules (i.e., from a crystal structure) in the initial 
structure passed to pdb2gmx?

-Justin

> Thanks for the help!
> xxx
> 
> 
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> *From:* gmx-users-bounces at gromacs.org [gmx-users-bounces at gromacs.org] on 
> behalf of Natalie Stephenson [Natalie.Stephenson at postgrad.manchester.ac.uk]
> *Sent:* 22 September 2010 13:02
> *To:* Discussion list for GROMACS users
> *Subject:* RE: [gmx-users] Energy minimisation problems - coordinate 
> file and topology file not matching.
> 
> Thanks for your help Justin & Terry
> 
> I've been letting genion etc update it ... so there must be somewhere 
> where i've missed it or something.  I'll check through the files and see 
> if I can see what's missing...
> 
> xxx
> 
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> *From:* gmx-users-bounces at gromacs.org [gmx-users-bounces at gromacs.org] on 
> behalf of Terry [terrencesun at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 22 September 2010 11:55
> *To:* Discussion list for GROMACS users
> *Subject:* Re: [gmx-users] Energy minimisation problems - coordinate 
> file and topology file not matching.
> 
> 
> Hi, Natalie,
> 
> Obviously, number of coordinates still doesn't match the topology file 
> even you updated the topol.top *carefully*.
> Check the topol.top thoroughly or paste several line of your coordinate 
> and topology files may be good ideas.
> 
> Note that the topology file is lacking information for *28* atoms. Does 
> that number remind you anything?
> 
> 
> Terry
> 
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Natalie Stephenson 
> <Natalie.Stephenson at postgrad.manchester.ac.uk 
> <mailto:Natalie.Stephenson at postgrad.manchester.ac.uk>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi everyone,
> 
>     I was hoping you could clear up a problem I'm having when performing
>     energy minimisation.  I'm following the instructions from one of the
>     tutorials (Justin's Umbrella Sampling) with my own protein, however,
>     this time when I try to perform the energy minimisation it throws
>     out this 'fatal error message' ...
> 
>      number of coordinates in coordinate file (nrr_solv_ions.gro, 33181)
>                  does not match topology (topol.top, 33153)
> 
>     I've been updating the topol.top file every time I've done
>     something, so I'm not really sure what's happened. 
> 
>     Can anyone throw some light on what I've gone wrong!!
>     Thanks loads!
>     Natalie
> 
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Justin A. Lemkul
Ph.D. Candidate
ICTAS Doctoral Scholar
MILES-IGERT Trainee
Department of Biochemistry
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA
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