[gmx-users] help with "interaction of type atom in the topology database, but an atom of that name was not found in residue" error

Katrina Lexa klexa at umich.edu
Fri Aug 31 03:23:13 CEST 2012


Hello Gromacs Users:

   I apologize for asking a question that has come up several times in the 
   forum, but I have read the answers to those posts and I am not still 
   unable to fix the error based on the suggestions in the previous emails.
   It is completely possible that I am just not seeing the obvious, so I apologize, 
   but I would welcome any advice. I just have a methylated glycine that I would like to use (SAR) within a 
   peptide with the AMBER force field, but when I try to build the cyclic 
   compound it writes out:

     Opening force field file ./amber99sb_lipid.ff/atomtypes.atp
   Atomtype 1
   Reading residue database... (amber99sb_lipid)
   Opening force field file ./amber99sb_lipid.ff/aminoacids.rtp
   Residue 100
   Sorting it all out...
   Opening force field file ./amber99sb_lipid.ff/aminoacids.hdb
   Back Off! I just backed up topol.top to ./#topol.top.59#
   Processing chain 1 'A' (85 atoms, 11 residues)
   Identified residue ALA1 as a starting terminus.
   Identified residue ALA11 as a ending terminus.
   9 out of 9 lines of specbond.dat converted successfully
   Opening force field file ./amber99sb_lipid.ff/aminoacids.arn
   Checking for duplicate atoms....
  -------------------------------------------------------
   Program pdb2gmx, VERSION 4.5.5
   Source code file: pgutil.c, line: 91

   Fatal error:
   Atom CB is used in an interaction of type atom in the topology
   database, but an atom of that name was not found in residue
   number 7.

   However, my residue 7 should not have a CB atom, I'm not seeing it in my 
   pdb file or the .rtp file (impropers section or otherwise). Perhaps that 
   residue is being skipped, but all of my atoms are "ATOM" rather than 
   HETATM, and I don't have any tabs messing up the fields.


this is the SAR (residue 7) section in my .rtp file

   [ SAR ]
     [ atoms ]
         N    N           -0.22670     1
        CN    CT          -0.22340     2
       HN1    H            0.10210     3
       HN2    H            0.10210     4
       HN3    H            0.10210     5
        CA    CT          -0.02520     6
       HA2    H1           0.06980     7
       HA3    H1           0.06980     8
         C    C            0.59730     9
         O    O           -0.56790    10
     [ bonds ]
         N    CN
         N    CA
        CA   C
        CA   HA2
        CA   HA3
        CN   HN1
        CN   HN2
        CN   HN3
         C     O
        -C     N
     [ impropers ]
        -C    CA     N     H
        CA    +N     C     O


and here is a chunk of my pdb file

   MODEL        1
   ATOM      1  N   ALA A   1      -5.608   1.167   2.062  1.00    0.00           N1+
   ATOM      2  CA  ALA A   1      -4.930   0.579   3.183  1.00     0.00           C
   ATOM      3  CB  ALA A   1      -5.857   0.458   4.396  1.00     0.00           C
   ATOM      4  C   ALA A   1      -3.814   1.597   3.525  1.00     0.00           C
   ATOM      5  O   ALA A   1      -4.063   2.822   3.391  1.00  0.00           O
   ATOM      6  N   MLE A   2      -2.575   1.132   3.819  1.00     0.00           N
   ATOM      7  CN  MLE A   2      -2.315  -0.257   4.265  1.00     0.00           C
   ATOM      8  CA  MLE A   2      -1.398   2.052   3.941  1.00     0.00           C
   ATOM      9  CB  MLE A   2      -1.091   2.218   5.462  1.00     0.00           C
   ATOM     10  CG  MLE A   2      -2.145   2.883   6.382  1.00     0.00           C
   ATOM     11  CD1 MLE A   2      -1.689   2.877   7.897  1.00     0.00           C
   ATOM     12  CD2 MLE A   2      -2.626   4.302   5.946  1.00     0.00           C
  ....
  ATOM     45  N   ABA A   6     4.961   4.195  -6.289  1.00  0.00         N
   ATOM     46  CA  ABA A   6     5.219   4.813  -7.615  1.00  0.00         C
   ATOM     47  CB  ABA A   6     6.627   4.541  -8.037  1.00  0.00         C
   ATOM     48  CG  ABA A   6     7.673   5.523  -7.418  1.00  0.00         C
   ATOM     49  C   ABA A   6     4.374   4.037  -8.636  1.00  0.00         C
   ATOM     50  O   ABA A   6     4.360   2.841  -8.453  1.00  0.00         O
   ATOM     51  N   SAR A   7     3.818   4.705  -9.676  1.00  0.00         N
   ATOM     52  CN  SAR A   7     4.087   6.071  -9.873  1.00  0.00         C
   ATOM     53  CA  SAR A   7     2.929   3.969 -10.548  1.00  0.00         C
   ATOM     54  C   SAR A   7     1.449   4.131 -10.258  1.00  0.00         C
   ATOM     55  O   SAR A   7     0.975   5.236 -10.559  1.00  0.00         O
   ATOM     56  N   MLE A   8     0.814   3.165  -9.517  1.00  0.00         N
   ATOM     57  CN  MLE A   8     1.365   1.822  -9.318  1.00  0.00         C
   ATOM     58  CA  MLE A   8    -0.491   3.432  -8.917  1.00  0.00         C
   ATOM     59  CB  MLE A   8    -1.599   2.488  -9.538  1.00  0.00         C
   ATOM     60  CG  MLE A   8    -2.739   3.173 -10.337  1.00  0.00         C
   ATOM     61  CD1 MLE A   8    -3.758   3.767  -9.396  1.00  0.00         C
   ATOM     62  CD2 MLE A   8    -2.404   4.282 -11.348  1.00  0.00         C
   ATOM     63  C   MLE A   8    -0.439   3.310  -7.362  1.00  0.00         C
   ATOM     64  O   MLE A   8     0.107   2.398  -6.778  1.00  0.00         O
   ...

   Thank you for your advice,

   Katrina


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