[gmx-users] getting started with gromacs

kumud agarwal kumud0405 at gmail.com
Tue Jan 24 17:23:45 CET 2012


I want to do energy minimization of a small peptide (19 residues long) file
(in pdb format).

Can you please tell which tutorial is best for this purpose and which force
field should I use.

Thanks

Kumud Agarwal


On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Justin A. Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu> wrote:

>
>
> kumud agarwal wrote:
>
>> I tried to use the command pdb2gmx
>>
>> *kumud at ubuntu:~/gromacs/**gromacs-4.5.5/share/tutor/**mciz$  pdb2gmx
>> -ignh -ff G43a1 -f mciz.pdb -o mciz.gro -p mciz.top*
>>
>>
>> At the end the message came as
>>
>> *Program pdb2gmx, VERSION 4.5.5
>>
>> Source code file: pdb2top.c, line: 239
>>
>> Fatal error:
>> Could not find force field 'G43a1' in current directory, install tree or
>> GMXDATA path.*
>>
>>
>> What is the problem here?
>>
>>
> The naming of force fields is different in the 4.5.x series.  Whatever
> tutorial you're looking at is outdated.  Try one of the updated ones on the
> Gromacs website, or just choose the force field interactively.
>
> -Justin
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