[gmx-users] problem with phosphorylated serine

[Justin Lemkul]

On 11/17/14 6:55 PM, Jayant James wrote:
> Hi!
> Thanks it did work after I added "SEP    Protein" to the residuetypes.dat
> file. While executing pdb2gmx I found that I am asked to choose the water
> model and I choose SPC. Then I got the error that stating that (Error
> message below).
>
> Error Message
> -------------
> Program pdb2gmx, VERSION 4.5.4
> Source code file: pdb2gmx.c, line: 1879
> Fatal error:
> The topology file 'gromos43a1p.ff/spc.itp' for the selected water model
> 'spc' can not be found in the force field directory. Select a different
> water model.
> For more information and tips for troubleshooting, please check the GROMACS
> website at http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/Errors
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Hence I went and listed the files in the non-phosphorylate and
> phosphorylated directories and found that many files in the
> non-phosphorylated directory are *not *present in the phosphorylated
> directory (given below)
>
> $ ls gromos43a1.ff/
> aminoacids.c.tdb  *aminoacids.vsd  * forcefield.doc   *spce.itp*
> aminoacids.hdb    atomtypes.atp    forcefield.itp   *spc.itp*
> aminoacids.n.tdb  ffbonded.itp     *ions.itp         tip3p.itp*
> aminoacids.r2b    *ff_dum.itp       methanol216.gro*  *tip4p.itp*
> aminoacids.rtp    ffnonbonded.itp  *methanol216.gro*  watermodels.dat
>
> $ ls gromos43a1p.ff/
> aminoacids.c.tdb  aminoacids.rtp   forcefield.doc  watermodels.dat
> aminoacids.hdb    atomtypes.atp    forcefield.itp
> aminoacids.n.tdb  ffbonded.itp     MD5SUM.txt
> aminoacids.r2b    ffnonbonded.itp  README
>
> SO MY QUESTION IS: Is it ok to copy these files that are missing in the
> phosphorylated force field directory from the non-phosphorylated
> force field directory?
>

Yes.

-Justin

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