[gmx-users] A query

Mark Abraham Mark.Abraham at anu.edu.au
Tue Jan 31 14:39:13 CET 2012


On 31/01/2012 9:04 PM, Anik Sen wrote:
> Hello,
> Am anik. Am using gromacs 4.5.5
> I could not find the proper reason of the foillowig failure of my job. 
> please help.
>
> *The following is a part of the dna pdb file, which I am using:
>
> *ATOM      1  O5'  DG5 X   1      13.663  36.760  21.465  0.00  0.00
> ATOM      2  C1'  DG5 X   1      14.791  36.040  21.150  0.00  0.00
> ATOM      3  C4'  DG5 X   1      14.771  34.703  21.873  0.00  0.00
> ATOM      4  O4'  DG5 X   1      16.017  34.553  22.577  0.00  0.00
> ATOM      5  C5'  DG5 X   1      13.724  34.528  22.970  0.00  0.00
> ATOM      6  O3'  DG5 X   1      13.540  33.118  23.234  0.00  0.00
> ATOM      7  C3'  DG5 X   1      14.362  35.323  24.108  0.00  0.00
> ATOM      8  C2'  DG5 X   1      15.856  35.044  23.903  0.00  0.00
> ATOM      9  N1   DG5 X   1      16.753  36.193  24.040  0.00  0.00
> ATOM     10  C8  DG5 X   1      16.484  37.562  24.004  0.00  0.00
> ATOM     11  N7  DG5 X   1      17.551  38.308  24.156  0.00  0.00
> ATOM     12  C4  DG5 X   1      18.589  37.359  24.268  0.00  0.00
> ATOM     13  C6  DG5 X   1      19.989  37.514  24.448  0.00  0.00
> ATOM     14  O6  DG5 X   1      20.648  38.553  24.534  0.00  0.00
> ATOM     15  N9  DG5 X   1      20.645  36.287  24.525  0.00  0.00
> ATOM     16  C2  DG5 X   1      20.048  35.045  24.439  0.00  0.00
> ATOM     17  N3  DG5 X   1      20.848  33.965  24.540  0.00  0.00
> ATOM     18  N5  DG5 X   1      18.753  34.884  24.262  0.00  0.00
> ATOM     19  C5  DG5 X   1      18.095  36.074  24.193  0.00  0.00
> ATOM     20  P    DT   X   2      12.650  32.528  24.445  0.00  0.00
> ATOM     21 O1P DT   X   2      12.016  31.284  23.943  0.00  0.00
> ATOM     22 O2P DT   X   2      11.806  33.610  25.015  0.00  0.00
> ATOM     23  O5' DT   X   2      13.743  32.102  25.531  0.00  0.00
> ATOM     24  C3' DT   X   2      14.653  31.088  25.184  0.00  0.00
> ATOM     25  C2' DT   X   2      15.813  31.114  26.126  0.00  0.00
> ATOM     26  O3' DT   X   2      16.429  32.408  26.092  0.00  0.00
> ATOM     27  C5' DT   X   2      15.420  30.906  27.570  0.00  0.00
> ATOM     28  O4' DT   X   2      15.818  29.609  27.955  0.00  0.00
> ATOM     29  C4' DT   X   2      16.171  31.996  28.340  0.00  0.00
> ATOM     30  C1' DT   X   2      17.115  32.536  27.293  0.00  0.00
> ATOM     31  N3  DT   X   2      17.425  33.937  27.428  0.00  0.00
> ATOM     32  C2  DT   X   2      18.741  34.313  27.581  0.00  0.00
> ATOM     33  O2  DT   X   2      19.667  33.515  27.649  0.00  0.00
> ATOM     34  N1  DT   X   2      18.932  35.671  27.666  0.00  0.00 *
>
>
> But my job is failing, as shown below:
>
>
> *[ganguly at localhost anik]$ pdb2gmx -f dna-A.pdb -o dna-B.pdb -p topol.top
>                          :-)  G  R  O  M  A  C  S  (-:
>
>                           GROtesk MACabre and Sinister
>
>                             :-)  VERSION 4.5.5  (-:
>
>         Written by Emile Apol, Rossen Apostolov, Herman J.C. Berendsen,
>       Aldert van Buuren, Pär Bjelkmar, Rudi van Drunen, Anton Feenstra,
>         Gerrit Groenhof, Peter Kasson, Per Larsson, Pieter Meulenhoff,
>            Teemu Murtola, Szilard Pall, Sander Pronk, Roland Schulz,
>                 Michael Shirts, Alfons Sijbers, Peter Tieleman,
>
> ...................................................................................
> ...................................................................................
> ...................................................................................
>
> Opening force field file 
> /usr/local/gromacs/share/gromacs/top/amber03.ff/dna.arn
> Opening force field file 
> /usr/local/gromacs/share/gromacs/top/amber03.ff/rna.arn
> Checking for duplicate atoms....
> Now there are 657 atoms. Deleted 7 duplicates.
>
> -------------------------------------------------------
> Program pdb2gmx, VERSION 4.5.5
> Source code file: pgutil.c, line: 91
>
> Fatal error:
> Atom N3 is used in an interaction of type atom in the topology
> database, but an atom of that name was not found in residue
> number 31

pdb2gmx can only match atom and residue names it finds in the topology 
database (.rtp). Your input structure lacks a (correctly named) N3 atom 
in residue 31, which I think pdb2gmx looked for when building hydrogen 
atoms.

Mark
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