[gmx-users] fatal error trying to simulate glycosylated proteins

[Justin Lemkul]

On 2/14/16 8:19 PM, David Newman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to simulate the dynamics of glycosylated proteins using gromacs 4.6.5 and have acquired forcefield parameters from PTM-Vienna (ffG45a3(v1.6) and ffG54a7(v1.7)) and CHARMM-GUI (36-jun2015) that supposedly allow for analysis of PTMs but both result in a fatal error when trying to run pdb2gmx -failing to recognise the identifier NAG - is there an alternative identifier I can use?
>

I can't speak to the GROMOS parameter sets, but the CHARMM-GUI output should 
include everything you need - force field, topology, coordinates, and .mdp files 
so there is no need to run pdb2gmx (because it won't handle glycosylations 
nicely and residue names may mismatch or not exist).

-Justin

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