Jose Borreguero wrote:
Hi Justin, thanks for your reply!

I appended '-p protein.top' to genion. File protein.top was automatically updated by insertion of the following lines at the end of the file:
/[ molecules ]
; Compound        #mols
Protein_chain_A     1
SOL         7791
NA+         26
CL-         23/

My solvated PDB, protein-solvent.pdb contains lines like these:
ATOM  24543  NA  NA+  8043      50.712  66.452  12.341  1.00  0.00

Now when I run grommp, I get the error
/Fatal error:
No such moleculetype NA+/

I checked file gromos45a3.ff/ions.itp. The sodium is included in this fashion:
/[ moleculetype ]
; molname   nrexcl
NA          1
[ atoms ]
; id    at type res nr  residu name at name  cg nr  charge   mass
1       NA+     1       NA          NA             1        22.9898/

It seems the naming convention of ions.itp is different than that of protein.top and protein-solvent.pdb. I changed protein.top and

What was your exact genion command? If you tell genion to use "-pname NA+" (which is wrong) you get this result. Note that the error says the moleculetype "NA+" is not found; the moleculetype name is "NA" instead.

protein-solvent.pdb to match the naming of ions.itp. Then when I run grompp I get the error:
/ERROR 1 [file protein.top, line 7228]:
  ERROR: One of the box lengths is smaller than twice the cut-off length.
  Increase the box size or decrease rlist./
The puzzling thing is that line 7228 of protein.top is the last line of the file, that is,
CL      23
So the error message is not much help :(

The problem comes from the coordinate file and settings of the .mdp file; they are somehow incompatible such that they would cause a violation of the minimum image convention. Why the error points to the .top I cannot say.

-Justin

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