<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/1/21 Justin A. Lemkul <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:jalemkul@vt.edu">jalemkul@vt.edu</a>&gt;</span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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2011/1/20 Justin A. Lemkul &lt;<a href="mailto:jalemkul@vt.edu" target="_blank">jalemkul@vt.edu</a> &lt;mailto:<a href="mailto:jalemkul@vt.edu" target="_blank">jalemkul@vt.edu</a>&gt;&gt;<br>
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    Qin Qiao wrote:<br>
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        2011/1/20 Justin A. Lemkul &lt;<a href="mailto:jalemkul@vt.edu" target="_blank">jalemkul@vt.edu</a><br>
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           Qin Qiao wrote:<br>
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               2011/1/20 Justin A. Lemkul &lt;<a href="mailto:jalemkul@vt.edu" target="_blank">jalemkul@vt.edu</a><br>
        &lt;mailto:<a href="mailto:jalemkul@vt.edu" target="_blank">jalemkul@vt.edu</a>&gt;<br>
               &lt;mailto:<a href="mailto:jalemkul@vt.edu" target="_blank">jalemkul@vt.edu</a> &lt;mailto:<a href="mailto:jalemkul@vt.edu" target="_blank">jalemkul@vt.edu</a>&gt;&gt;<br>
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                  Qin Qiao wrote:<br>
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                      Dear all,<br>
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                      I would like to try a new forcefield in Gromacs<br>
        4.5.3. What<br>
                      should I do after I copied the ff to<br>
        /share/gromacs/top<br>
                      directory? It seems the original FF.dat doesn&#39;t<br>
        exist in<br>
               4.5.3..<br>
                      Could you give me some help?<br>
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                  pdb2gmx detects forcefield directories by searching<br>
        for names<br>
               that<br>
                  end in .ff, then looking in that directory for a<br>
        &quot;forcefield.doc&quot;<br>
                  file that contains a brief description of the force field.<br>
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                  -Justin<br>
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               Thanks. But I cannot find the new forcefield when I used<br>
               pdb2gmx.. the folder of ff is named &#39;PACE.ff&#39;<br>
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           It must also contain a forcefield.itp file to be recognized, and<br>
           ultimately, to work at all.  I did a test of minimum<br>
        requirements,<br>
           and only after I added a dummy forcefield.itp file to the test.ff<br>
           subdirectory did pdb2gmx recognize the new force field.<br>
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           -Justin<br>
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        There is an .itp file in the ff.. but it doesn&#39;t work..<br>
        strange.. is there any other possibility?<br>
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    It works just fine for me.  To be sure, I used the name &quot;PACE.ff&quot;<br>
    instead of my generic &quot;test.ff&quot; to make sure capitalization or<br>
    something foolish wasn&#39;t a problem.  It worked fine, adding &quot;PACE&quot;<br>
    as entry 16 in the pdb2gmx menu (I also have another custom force<br>
    field, so the order of your pdb2gmx output may be different).<br>
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    The other thing to try is to build the force field in your working<br>
    directory and see if pdb2gmx finds it there.  This is, of course,<br>
    not strictly required (and would be very inconvenient), but it could<br>
    be a useful diagnostic.<br>
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    -Justin<br>
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Thanks. But it doesn&#39;t work.. and I tried to copy the exact files in the charmm.ff to a new test.ff, and pdb2gmx doesn&#39;t find test.ff..<br>
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Do you have multiple versions of Gromacs on the same machine?  If so, are you calling the right pdb2gmx?<br><font color="#888888">
<br></font></blockquote><div>Could you tell me how can I tell which version of pdb2gmx I call?<br><br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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                      Best,<br>
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                      Qin<br>
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