[gmx-users] membrane protein simulation - errors

[Justin Lemkul]

On 9/17/14 6:54 PM, Yunlong Liu wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I am trying to use Gromacs 5.0 to run membrane protein simulation. I built my membrane protein system with POPC membrane and TIP3P water in VMD. Then I used gmx pdb2gmx to build gromacs topology files.
>
>
> My force field is charmm22* and it contains a lipids.rtp entry. It can successfully recognize the POPC molecules in my pdb and the water. But it keeps complaining something like this :
>
>
> Processing chain 7 'L' (5360 atoms, 40 residues)
> Warning: Starting residue POPC1 in chain not identified as Protein/RNA/DNA.
> Warning: Starting residue POPC2 in chain not identified as Protein/RNA/DNA.
> Warning: Starting residue POPC3 in chain not identified as Protein/RNA/DNA.
> Warning: Starting residue POPC7 in chain not identified as Protein/RNA/DNA.
> Warning: Starting residue POPC8 in chain not identified as Protein/RNA/DNA.
> More than 5 unidentified residues at start of chain - disabling further warnings.
> Problem with chain definition, or missing terminal residues.
> This chain does not appear to contain a recognized chain molecule.
> If this is incorrect, you can edit residuetypes.dat to modify the behavior.
>
> Then I modified the residuestypes.dat to add POPC and TIP3 into the file but it still keeps complaining.
>
> I tried to ignore this and run grompp -f minim.mdp -c my.gro .. to generate the tpr file but I got an error like this:
>
> -------------------------------------------------------
> Program gmx, VERSION 5.0-rc1
> Source code file: /home/yunlong/Downloads/gromacs-5.0-rc1/src/gromacs/gmxpreprocess/toppush.c, line: 2393
>
> Fatal error:
> Invalid Atomnr j: 5, b2->nr: 3
>
> For more information and tips for troubleshooting, please check the GROMACS
> website at http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/Errors
> -------------------------------------------------------?
>
>
> I am wondering whether I can do membrane protein simulation in Gromacs without building the system in Gromacs.
>

It's certainly possible, but I'd start with using an actual release version of 
Gromacs, rather than 5.0-rc1.  Try again with 5.0.1.

-Justin

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