[gmx-users] Need to confirm parameters.

Sailesh Bataju thelaven at gmail.com
Wed May 31 08:26:39 CEST 2017


>Extract the coordinates of any valine side chain in a protein, make an IBUT .hdb
>entry based off of it (all you'll need to do is change 2 -> 3 in the number of H
>added to the CB atom) and submit to pdb2gmx; it will build any missing H atoms
>for you.

>-Justin

I did exactly you said and topology files were generated. The output
of the terminal is:

Opening force field file /usr/share/gromacs/top/charmm36.ff/merged.r2b
Reading test2_edited.pdb...
Read 'ALKANE ISOMER OF N-BUTANE', 13 atoms
Analyzing pdb file
Splitting chemical chains based on TER records or chain id changing.
There are 1 chains and 0 blocks of water and 1 residues with 13 atoms

  chain  #res #atoms
  1 'A'     1     13

All occupancies are one
Opening force field file /usr/share/gromacs/top/charmm36.ff/atomtypes.atp
Atomtype 412
Reading residue database... (charmm36)
Opening force field file /usr/share/gromacs/top/charmm36.ff/merged.rtp
Residue 1025
Sorting it all out...
Opening force field file /usr/share/gromacs/top/charmm36.ff/merged.hdb
Opening force field file /usr/share/gromacs/top/charmm36.ff/merged.n.tdb
Opening force field file /usr/share/gromacs/top/charmm36.ff/merged.c.tdb

Back Off! I just backed up topol.top to ./#topol.top.5#
Processing chain 1 'A' (13 atoms, 1 residues)
Warning: Starting residue IBU1 in chain not identified as Protein/RNA/DNA.
Problem with chain definition, or missing terminal residues.
This chain does not appear to contain a recognized chain molecule.
If this is incorrect, you can edit residuetypes.dat to modify the behavior.
8 out of 8 lines of specbond.dat converted successfully
Opening force field file /usr/share/gromacs/top/charmm36.ff/merged.arn
Checking for duplicate atoms....
Generating any missing hydrogen atoms and/or adding termini.
Now there are 1 residues with 14 atoms
Making bonds...
Number of bonds was 13, now 13
Generating angles, dihedrals and pairs...
Before cleaning: 27 pairs
Before cleaning: 27 dihedrals
Keeping all generated dihedrals
Making cmap torsions...
There are   27 dihedrals,    0 impropers,   24 angles
            27 pairs,       13 bonds and     0 virtual sites
Total mass 58.124 a.m.u.
Total charge 0.000 e
Writing topology

Back Off! I just backed up posre.itp to ./#posre.itp.1#

Writing coordinate file...
		--------- PLEASE NOTE ------------
You have successfully generated a topology from: test2_edited.pdb.
The Charmm36 force field and the tip3p water model are used.
		--------- ETON ESAELP ------------

But the topol.top file looks empty. The topol.top file is:

; Include forcefield parameters
#include "charmm36.ff/forcefield.itp"

[ moleculetype ]
; Name            nrexcl
Alkane_chain_A      3

[ atoms ]
;   nr       type  resnr residue  atom   cgnr     charge       mass
typeB    chargeB      massB
; residue   1 IBU rtp IBU  q  0.0
     1      CC31A      1    IBU     CT      1      -0.09     12.011
; qtot -0.09
     2      HCA1A      1    IBU     HT      2       0.09      1.008   ; qtot 0
     3      CC33A      1    IBU     C1      3      -0.27     12.011
; qtot -0.27
     4      HCA3A      1    IBU    H11      4       0.09      1.008
; qtot -0.18
     5      HCA3A      1    IBU    H12      5       0.09      1.008
; qtot -0.09
     6      HCA3A      1    IBU    H13      6       0.09      1.008   ; qtot 0
     7      CC33A      1    IBU     C2      7      -0.27     12.011
; qtot -0.27
     8      HCA3A      1    IBU    H21      8       0.09      1.008
; qtot -0.18
     9      HCA3A      1    IBU    H22      9       0.09      1.008
; qtot -0.09
    10      HCA3A      1    IBU    H23     10       0.09      1.008   ; qtot 0
    11      CC33A      1    IBU     C3     11      -0.27     12.011
; qtot -0.27
    12      HCA3A      1    IBU    H31     12       0.09      1.008
; qtot -0.18
    13      HCA3A      1    IBU    H32     13       0.09      1.008
; qtot -0.09
    14      HCA3A      1    IBU    H33     14       0.09      1.008   ; qtot 0

[ bonds ]
;  ai    aj funct            c0            c1            c2            c3
    1     2     1
    1     3     1
    1     7     1
    1    11     1
    3     4     1
    3     5     1
    3     6     1
    7     8     1
    7     9     1
    7    10     1
   11    12     1
   11    13     1
   11    14     1

[ pairs ]
;  ai    aj funct            c0            c1            c2            c3
    2     4     1
    2     5     1
    2     6     1
    2     8     1
    2     9     1
    2    10     1
    2    12     1
    2    13     1
    2    14     1
    3     8     1
    3     9     1
    3    10     1
    3    12     1
    3    13     1
    3    14     1
    4     7     1
    4    11     1
    5     7     1
    5    11     1
    6     7     1
    6    11     1
    7    12     1
    7    13     1
    7    14     1
    8    11     1
    9    11     1
   10    11     1

[ angles ]
;  ai    aj    ak funct            c0            c1            c2            c3
    2     1     3     5
    2     1     7     5
    2     1    11     5
    3     1     7     5
    3     1    11     5
    7     1    11     5
    1     3     4     5
    1     3     5     5
    1     3     6     5
    4     3     5     5
    4     3     6     5
    5     3     6     5
    1     7     8     5
    1     7     9     5
    1     7    10     5
    8     7     9     5
    8     7    10     5
    9     7    10     5
    1    11    12     5
    1    11    13     5
    1    11    14     5
   12    11    13     5
   12    11    14     5
   13    11    14     5

[ dihedrals ]
;  ai    aj    ak    al funct            c0            c1
c2            c3            c4            c5
    2     1     3     4     9
    2     1     3     5     9
    2     1     3     6     9
    7     1     3     4     9
    7     1     3     5     9
    7     1     3     6     9
   11     1     3     4     9
   11     1     3     5     9
   11     1     3     6     9
    2     1     7     8     9
    2     1     7     9     9
    2     1     7    10     9
    3     1     7     8     9
    3     1     7     9     9
    3     1     7    10     9
   11     1     7     8     9
   11     1     7     9     9
   11     1     7    10     9
    2     1    11    12     9
    2     1    11    13     9
    2     1    11    14     9
    3     1    11    12     9
    3     1    11    13     9
    3     1    11    14     9
    7     1    11    12     9
    7     1    11    13     9
    7     1    11    14     9

; Include Position restraint file
#ifdef POSRES
#include "posre.itp"
#endif

; Include water topology
#include "charmm36.ff/tip3p.itp"

#ifdef POSRES_WATER
; Position restraint for each water oxygen
[ position_restraints ]
;  i funct       fcx        fcy        fcz
   1    1       1000       1000       1000
#endif

; Include topology for ions
#include "charmm36.ff/ions.itp"

[ system ]
; Name
ALKANE ISOMER OF N-BUTANE

[ molecules ]
; Compound        #mols
Alkane_chain_A      1

I think [bonds], [pairs],etc section should be automatically filled
up. Did I do something wrong?

Thank you very much.


On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 8:51 AM, Sailesh Bataju <thelaven at gmail.com> wrote:

> >>* Making bonds...
> *>>* Warning: Short Bond (5-1 = 0.0259999 nm)
> *>>* Warning: Long Bond (5-6 = 0.99084 nm)
> *>>* Warning: Long Bond (1-2 = 0.944378 nm)
> *>>* Warning: Long Bond (1-3 = 0.895661 nm)
> *>>* Warning: Long Bond (1-4 = 0.866986 nm)
> *>>* Warning: Long Bond (7-8 = 0.502204 nm)
> *>>* Warning: Long Bond (7-9 = 0.567317 nm)
> *>> *Warning: Long Bond (7-10 = 0.92202 nm)
> *>>* Warning: Long Bond (11-12 = 0.592831 nm)
> *>>* Warning: Long Bond (11-13 = 0.700231 nm)
> *>>* Warning: Long Bond (11-14 = 0.729592 nm)*
>
> > The short bond warnings do, however, indicate that the starting geometry is bad.
>
> > -Justin
>
> I'd a doubt about it you eventually pointed it out sir, thank you. Those bond lengths have drastic differences than the bond lengths given in ffbonded.itp file. Here it goes according to the .itp file:-
>
> 1-5 = 0.15380000 <01-5380000> nm
>
> 5-6 = 0.11110000 <011-110000> nm
>
> 1-2 = 0.11110000 <011-110000> nm
>
> and so on...
>
> Nothing has matched with those generated bonds. It looks like I've to modify pdb file manually for correct geometry using distance formula or is there some other way to do it, sir?
>
> Thank you very much.
>
>


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