[gmx-users] Fatal Error: Unknown bond_atomtype OS. Simulating membrane protein in DPC micelle. PLEASE HELP!!!

Justin Lemkul jalemkul at vt.edu
Tue Jul 19 16:11:23 CEST 2016



On 7/18/16 11:33 PM, Tapash, Arifuzzaman wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm a new user of Gromacs. I have completed the first two tutorials  ('Lysozyme in Water' and the 'KALP-15 in DPPC')by Justin Lamkul recently.
>
> Now, I'm trying to simulate a membrane protein (1RKL) in a micelle of DPC. I have collected the DPC micelle (m65.pdb - 65 DPC molecules)  from Dr. Tieleman's lab website. I also collected the 'dpc.itp' file from the same website. I'm trying to do this simulation following the 'KALP-15 in DPPC' tutorial.
>
> I have oriented the protein in correct direction and done 'pdb2gmx' on the protein molecule. Then, I modified the gromos force field (ffbonded and ffnonbonded) and the topology (topol.top) file following the tutorial.
>
> I have prepared the DPC topology file (topol_dpc.top) by modifying the 'topol_dppc.top' file provided at that tutorial.
>
> I hope I haven't done any mistake upto that point.
>
> Now, I'm stuck in Step-3 (1. Orient the protein and membrane).
> When I was using the grompp command (gmx grompp -f minim.mdp -c m65.gro -p topol_dpc.top -o em.tpr), I am getting an error message saying-
>
> "Unknown bond_atomtype OS"
>
> Then I checked the 'dpc.itp' file, and found that in some places of that file 'OS' atomtype is mentioned, but in the "atomtypes.atp" file in the gromos forcefield, I didn't find any atomtype "OS" defined.
>
> I'm stuck in this stage. How to solve this? Do I have to modify the dpc.itp file or the atomtype.atp file?
>

The .atp file is only read by pdb2gmx.  If there are additional parameters that 
are required, you need to incorporate them via #include mechanism with an .itp 
file that defines them or by modifying ffnonbonded.itp (which is the primary 
point of the KALP-15/DPPC tutorial).

-Justin

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