[gmx-users] pdb2gmx generate .itp file for each molecule

[Justin Lemkul]

On 2/23/16 10:31 PM, Ray Chao wrote:
> ​Hi, gmx users,
>
> I used materials studio to generate a .pdb file containing 160 PTFE chains,
> and then modified the oplsaa  forcefiled as Justin did. The pdb2gmx
> generated right .gro and .top files. But the problem is that it generated
> one .itp file for each molecule. Since there are 160 identical molecules in
> the .pdb file, each .itp file is exactly the same except that it named the
> molecules as "Other", "Other2",...,"Other160". So is there any way to tell
> gromacs that there are actually 160 identical molecules in the .pdb file?
>

Extract the coordinates of one molecule from the box and run pdb2gmx on that one 
molecule.  Change the number in [molecules] to 160.

-Justin

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