[gmx-users] About -chainsep and -ter

[Justin A. Lemkul]

Hsin-Lin Chiang wrote:
>>I suspect this is a bug, so I have filed an issue on redmine:
>>
>>http://redmine.gromacs.org/issues/784
>>
>>In a previous issue (http://redmine.gromacs.org/issues/544), the "-chainsep 
>>interactive" option did not work, but now it does.  Conversely, "-chainsep ter" 
>>(which should also work in this case) does not.
>>
>>-Justin
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> I get success in pdb2gmx, but I not only delete ter line but also all OXT lines according to this mailing list,
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> http://www.mail-archive.com/gmx-users@gromacs.org/msg33251.html
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> But I'm failed when I used mdrun in "-chainsep ter" case.
> 
> 

Right.  Even if you somehow force pdb2gmx to write a topology in this case, the 
bonds are not correct and the termini are incomplete.  That will hopefully be 
resolved when the bug is fixed.  For now, you have a workaround.  Just use 
"-chainsep interactive" and you will get a proper topology.

-Justin

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