[gmx-users] pdb2gmx error

Justin Lemkul jalemkul at vt.edu
Wed Oct 7 22:59:03 CEST 2015



On 10/7/15 3:01 PM, Dries Van Rompaey wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> This is Gromacs 5.0.4. This is a non-terminal residue.
> The command line used is:
> gmx pdb2gmx -f complex.pdb -o complex.gro (-ignh)
> I tried this procedure with and without ignh flag.
> As far as I know, specbonds is not in play.
>

Non-terminal proline does not have an amide H.  If your force field .rtp file 
claims to use such an atom used in a dihedral (which is what the error message 
tells you is happening), find out who altered the file and reprimand them :)

-Justin

> Kind regards,
> Dries
>
>
> On 7 October 2015 at 20:56, Mark Abraham <mark.j.abraham at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is it terminal? Are there specbonds in play? What's the GROMACS version?
>> What's your pdb2gmx command line? :-)
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 8:43 PM Dries Van Rompaey <
>> dries.vanrompaey at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> I'm getting the following warning when I try to run pdb2gmx on my protein
>>> structure:
>>>
>>> WARNING: WARNING: Residue 168 named PRO of a molecule in the input file
>> was
>>> mapped to an entry in the topology database, but the atom H used in an
>>> interaction of type dihedral in that entry is not found in the input
>> file.
>>> Perhaps your atom and/or residue naming needs to be fixed.
>>>
>>> This warning is only present when I use the AMBER03 forcefield, all other
>>> forcefields seem to work fine. I have tried this with both a structure
>>> without hydrogens as well as a structure with hydrogens added, both with
>>> and without the -ignh flag. I tried looking at the amber03 database files
>>> as well as the amber99sb-ildn database files (amber99sb-ildn works just
>>> fine), but I could not find any reason why this particular residue would
>> be
>>> problematic. pdb2gmx does not find any problems with the other proline
>>> residues in the protein (which look identical), so I am puzzled as to
>>> what's causing this.
>>>
>>> The proline residue is:
>>> ATOM   1384  N   PRO A 168     274.650  45.241  24.167  1.00180.63
>>>    N
>>> ATOM   1385  CA  PRO A 168     273.508  44.823  23.370  1.00180.63
>>>    C
>>> ATOM   1386  CD  PRO A 168     275.844  45.381  23.346  1.00180.63
>>>    C
>>> ATOM   1387  CB  PRO A 168     274.071  44.405  22.014  1.00180.63
>>>    C
>>> ATOM   1388  CG  PRO A 168     275.381  45.194  21.892  1.00180.63
>>>    C
>>> ATOM   1389  C   PRO A 168     272.551  43.776  23.888  1.00180.63
>>>    C
>>> ATOM   1390  O   PRO A 168     271.478  43.646  23.304  1.00180.63
>>>    O
>>>
>>> Does anyone know what's going on here?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance!
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