<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Everything beyond dssp 2.0 uses a new syntax, which is not (yet) supported in gromacs. The new way of invoking dssp is described on the dssp webpage. Although undocumented, version 2.0 still accepts the old syntax, but NOT the -na flag, which is set by do_dssp unless you ask for syrface area calculations. Try to either install dssp 1.X or add e.g. the -a flag when executing do_dssp. The latter worked to my surprise.</div><div><br></div><div>There is a fix for this issue up for review that will (hopefully) go into gromacs 4.6. If you can't wait for that, it's pretty straightforward to modify how dssp is invoked in src/tools/do_dssp.c.</div><div><br></div><div>Erik</div><br><div><div>30 mar 2012 kl. 16.38 skrev Albert:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
  
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    I've tried: 2, 2.1.3, 2.1.4, the problem is still there. I don't
    think the do_dssp is so difficult. just one command:<br>
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    do_dssp -s md.tpr -f md.trr -b 100 -e 200 -f ss.xpm<br>
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    On 03/30/2012 03:05 PM, Erik Marklund wrote:
    <blockquote cite="mid:9FC2E7D7-75BC-4828-959F-3D4000BB75D6@xray.bmc.uu.se" type="cite">And what versions were those?
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          <div>30 mar 2012 kl. 15.06 skrev Albert:</div>
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            <div>I've tried different kind of DSSP version, but the
              problem is the same....<br>
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              <blockquote type="cite">Today's Topics:<br>
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              <blockquote type="cite"> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1. Re: Re: do_dssp error (Erik
                Marklund)<br>
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              <blockquote type="cite"> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;2. Re: Not able to continue
                with Equilibration (Justin A. Lemkul)<br>
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              <blockquote type="cite"> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;3. Re: HB lifetime (Nidhi
                Katyal)<br>
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              <blockquote type="cite"> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;4. Re: HB lifetime (Justin A.
                Lemkul)<br>
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              <blockquote type="cite">Message: 1<br>
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              <blockquote type="cite">Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:28:05
                +0200<br>
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              <blockquote type="cite">From: Erik Marklund&lt;<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:erikm@xray.bmc.uu.se">erikm@xray.bmc.uu.se</a>&gt;<br>
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              <blockquote type="cite">Subject: Re: [gmx-users] Re:
                do_dssp error<br>
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              <blockquote type="cite">To: Discussion list for GROMACS
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              <blockquote type="cite">Message-ID:&lt;<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:129A1E28-ABBD-4733-BA85-C1F6B2F4BE89@xray.bmc.uu.se">129A1E28-ABBD-4733-BA85-C1F6B2F4BE89@xray.bmc.uu.se</a>&gt;<br>
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              <blockquote type="cite">And I replied "What's your dssp
                version? The most recent ones have different flags that
                are not yet supported by gromacs."<br>
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              <blockquote type="cite">Erik<br>
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              <blockquote type="cite">30 mar 2012 kl. 13.23 skrev
                Albert:<br>
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                <blockquote type="cite">Hello:<br>
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                <blockquote type="cite"> &nbsp;there is some problem for my
                  do_dssp, it always claimed:<br>
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                <blockquote type="cite">Program do_dssp_d, VERSION 4.5.5<br>
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                <blockquote type="cite">Source code file: do_dssp.c,
                  line: 572<br>
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                <blockquote type="cite">Fatal error:<br>
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                <blockquote type="cite">Failed to execute command:
                  /usr/local/bin/dssp -na ddg1g7Id ddRwthIi&gt;
                  &nbsp;/dev/null 2&gt; &nbsp;/dev/null<br>
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                <blockquote type="cite">someone suggest to compile
                  gromacs with double precision and I recompiled it with
                  --enable-double<br>
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                <blockquote type="cite">but it still doesn't work.....<br>
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                <blockquote type="cite">does anybody else have any
                  suggestions?<br>
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                <blockquote type="cite">THX<br>
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                <blockquote type="cite">-- <br>
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              <blockquote type="cite">Erik Marklund, PhD<br>
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              <blockquote type="cite">Dept. of Cell and Molecular
                Biology, Uppsala University.<br>
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              <blockquote type="cite">Husargatan 3, Box 596, &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;75124
                Uppsala, Sweden<br>
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              <blockquote type="cite">phone: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;+46 18 471 6688
                &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;fax: +46 18 511 755<br>
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              <blockquote type="cite"><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:erikm@xray.bmc.uu.se">erikm@xray.bmc.uu.se</a><br>
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              <blockquote type="cite">Message: 2<br>
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              <blockquote type="cite">Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 08:26:05
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              <blockquote type="cite">From: "Justin A. Lemkul"&lt;<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:jalemkul@vt.edu">jalemkul@vt.edu</a>&gt;<br>
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              <blockquote type="cite">Subject: Re: [gmx-users] Not able
                to continue with Equilibration<br>
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              <blockquote type="cite">To: Discussion list for GROMACS
                users&lt;<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:gmx-users@gromacs.org">gmx-users@gromacs.org</a>&gt;<br>
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              <blockquote type="cite">Message-ID:&lt;<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:4F75A65D.1040701@vt.edu">4F75A65D.1040701@vt.edu</a>&gt;<br>
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              <blockquote type="cite">francesca vitalini wrote:<br>
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                <blockquote type="cite">Dear Mark,<br>
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                <blockquote type="cite">Thank you for your answer. I'm
                  trying now with the position restraints<br>
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                <blockquote type="cite">and see what happens.<br>
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                <blockquote type="cite">However, another question came
                  up to my mind in the mean time. I'm<br>
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                <blockquote type="cite">using GROMACS 3.3.1 (version
                  with mapping for reverse transformation,<br>
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                <blockquote type="cite">I have been posting on it
                  before) and for the mdrun the flag -coarse<br>
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                <blockquote type="cite">is required. From the mdrun -h
                  help, the -coarse flag resulted to be a<br>
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                <blockquote type="cite">generic trajectory, so I assumed
                  it was needed for the names of the<br>
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                <blockquote type="cite">atoms or something similar.
                  However, trying to run the nvt.mdp with<br>
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                <blockquote type="cite">the original coarse grained file
                  specified for this flag, resulted in<br>
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                <blockquote type="cite">the simulation not dying at the
                  very first steps.<br>
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                <blockquote type="cite"> &nbsp;I'm not sure if it will work
                  out eventually ( the 20 ps simulations<br>
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                <blockquote type="cite">is supposed to finish in 12
                  hours, which is still kind of worrying<br>
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                <blockquote type="cite">despite my system being pretty
                  big) but definitely told me that the<br>
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                <blockquote type="cite">-coarse flag might be of
                  fundamental importance.<br>
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                <blockquote type="cite">Unfortunately I couldn't find
                  any more detailed documentation about it.<br>
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              <blockquote type="cite">
                <blockquote type="cite">Could anyone explain to me what
                  it does or point me to where to find<br>
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                <blockquote type="cite">the related documentation?<br>
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              <blockquote type="cite">Where did you obtain this version
                of Gromacs? &nbsp;You're not using an official<br>
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              <blockquote type="cite">version, so you're not likely to
                find its documentation in the usual places and<br>
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              <blockquote type="cite">it's very hard for this community
                to help you using a modified version of<br>
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              <blockquote type="cite">antiquated software. &nbsp;You're more
                likely to have luck contacting whoever created<br>
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              <blockquote type="cite">these modifications for help,
                since potential problems with code stability and<br>
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              <blockquote type="cite">performance are likely best
                addressed by those who made the modifications.<br>
              </blockquote>
              <blockquote type="cite">Perhaps they are members of this
                list, but contacting them directly is probably<br>
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              <blockquote type="cite">a better approach.<br>
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              <blockquote type="cite">-Justin<br>
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                    <div>Erik Marklund, PhD</div>
                    <div>Dept. of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala
                      University.</div>
                    <div>Husargatan 3, Box 596, &nbsp; &nbsp;75124 Uppsala, Sweden</div>
                    <div>phone: &nbsp; &nbsp;+46 18 471 6688 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;fax: +46 18
                      511 755</div>
                    <div><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:erikm@xray.bmc.uu.se">erikm@xray.bmc.uu.se</a></div>
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