[gmx-users] build membrane system from Charmm-Gui

[Justin Lemkul]

On 8/26/14, 10:59 AM, Xiang Ning wrote:
> Dear Justin,
>
> Thanks a lot! I am looking forward to the new version CHARMM-GUI. However, at
> this moment, I was trying to put a protein inside the membrane. I used "editconf
> -f protein.pdb -o conf.pdb -box (my box demension x y z)" and then "genbox -cp
> conf.pdb -cs lipid_water_ion.pdb -o box.pdb" to remove the overlapped lipids. It
> looks fine in VWD, no overlap between protein and lipids occurred. However, when
> I try to generate top file by using " pdb2gmx -f box.gro -p box.top", It showed
> it did not know "K" (potassium). So I change all "K" to origin Charmm version
> "POT" in box.gro file, it can generate top file this time, but when I ran
> "grompp -f minim.mdp -c box.gro -p box.top -o box.tpr", it showed "Unknown cmap
> torsion between atoms 319 321 323 338 341".  I downloaded the patch
> "0001-Fix-pdb2gmx-merge-cmap.patch" to fix the problem, but it did not work (it
> asked file to patch which I don't know which file to patch). I would like to
> know, how to ran energy minimization in this case (protein inside the lipid
> membrane)? I used charmm36 force field for all atom by the way.
>

I have no idea what that patch script is or what it does.  The bigger question 
is what are those atoms, and why did pdb2gmx write a CMAP entry for them?

-Justin
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