[gmx-users] Adding ion to force field

[Justin Lemkul]

On 10/21/15 10:25 AM, Peter Stern wrote:
> Just guessing here but maybe you need to also add YB to the atomtypes.atp file.
>

The .atp file is only read by pdb2gmx, so that's not going to be the issue with 
grompp.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gromacs.org_gmx-users-bounces at maillist.sys.kth.se [mailto:gromacs.org_gmx-users-bounces at maillist.sys.kth.se] On Behalf Of Irem Altan
> Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2015 4:23 PM
> To: gmx-users at gromacs.org
> Subject: Re: [gmx-users] Adding ion to force field
>
> Thanks, leaving out .ff worked!
>
> I’m still having a bit of trouble using the resulting .gro and .top files, though. I’m trying to create an executable that adds ions to the box, with the command
>
> grompp -f ions.mdp -c box_h2o.gro -o ions.tpr -p topol.top
>
> which gives me the error
>
> Fatal error:
> Syntax error - File ffnonbonded.itp, line 1 Last line read:
> '[ atomtypes ]'
> Invalid order for directive atomtypes
>
> All I did was to add a line to the end of [atomtypes] with the info for the new ion:
>
> YB          70     173.04    0.0000  A   1.65600e+00  4.00000e-02
>
> What could be the problem?
>

So you modified ffnonbonded.itp directly?  grompp is choking on the first line, 
which is really bizarre, so it should have nothing to do with a line added at 
the end.  Can you upload your force field directory somewhere?

-Justin

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