[gmx-users] reg bonds missing in the final pdb

Justin A. Lemkul jalemkul at vt.edu
Mon May 16 04:35:28 CEST 2011



vidhya sankar wrote:
> dear Justin , Thank you for immediate valuable reply.
> 
> I have all bonds in my original PDB But after doing Dynamics I have 
> converted .gro file to .pdb by trjconv_d tool
>  In thsi pdb file some of the bonds Have been missed between the atoms 
> though i am using constraints = all-bonds in .mdp files.
> How to recover those bonds in my final .pdb .At the same time when i 
> measure  distance between the atoms which are not connected, using VMD 
> it shows some distances
>  
> I am not sure of my final pdb retain the bonds as original .pdb.
> 

Bonds are defined in the topology.  Bonds cannot break or form.  If it appears 
that bonds have broken this is simply a visualization artifact and may or may 
not be related to PBC.

See FAQ 9 and perhaps 11:

http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/FAQs

-Justin

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