[gmx-users] gmx-5.0 does not seem to honour plus/minus signs in topology files

[Justin Lemkul]

On 7/10/14, 6:07 AM, Michael Brunsteiner wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I made myself a force field for an organic polymer using a terminology/syntax
> similar to amino acids, so that i can make topoly files directly from pdb files
> using pdb2gmx.
> This worked nicely up to gmx-4.6.5, but when trying 5.0 pdb2gmx
> complains about not finding particular atoms in a pdb file, although they are
> there (only in the neighbouring residue), and then grompp gives up
> because it believes to find double entries in a angle or dihedral
> because the atom names in neighbouring resiues are identical.
>
> e.g. there's an entry in the angle section of resiue 2:
> "-C2 C1 C2"
>
> the first atom is in residue 1 the second and third are in residue 2
> (as indicated by the minus sign) but pdb2gmx/grompp believe that all three
> names refer to atoms in residue 2 and thus grompp complanes about a duplicate
> atom and givbes up ...
>
>
> Is this something that was changed in 5.0 on purpose?
>

I'm getting correct +/- behavior for proteins; is this maybe related to the fact 
that you have atom C2 in both the current and the preceding residue?  It would 
be useful for debugging if you could create a minimal test case that uses 
different atom names between the residues.

-Justin

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