[gmx-users] grompp error

[Justin Lemkul]

On 9/14/15 4:30 AM, faride badalkhani wrote:
> Dear GROMACS users,
>
> I need to simulate a hyper branched polymer (a polyamidoamine dendrimer). I
> used the GROMOS53A6 to perform the simulation. But, I have a problem with
> defining the angles and dihedrals that are between two residues (because of
> dendrimers hyper branched structure). I can perform pdb2gmx and solvation,
> but When I run grompp, I got this error " No default Proper Dih. types",

So here the force field doesn't support whatever dihedral(s) that grompp finds.

> and ''Duplicate atom index (...) in dihedrals''. How should I figure it
> out?
>

Here your topology is set up incorrectly, as the same atom is repeated in a 
given dihedral definition.

-Justin

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