On 1/8/13 8:05 PM, Payman Pirzadeh wrote:
Since gromacs is globally installed on the cluster, I am making local
modifications. What was strange was I modified the three files, and I ran
pdb2gmx with them, and it failed (it could not find certain atoms?!). Then I
copied the whole gromos53a5 folder to my working directory and moved these
files into it, and I used the -ff option, but it still opened the global
folder. So, I kept the three modified files in my working directory + the
grooms folder with the modified files, then it worked. The topology
contained the new parameters. I guess there might be sth with how pdb2gmx
finds the database files.
The proper approach for making local modifications is to create a complete force
field directory with all necessary files within it. The residuetypes.dat file
must be in the working directory, not any subdirectory thereof, and you must
issue all commands from within that directory. Otherwise, Gromacs programs
revert to the copy in $GMXLIB. I suspect any of these factors will explain what
you're observing with respect to intermittent successes - you're either moving
around directories or putting files in the wrong place(s).
-Justin
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