From: Peter Freddolino (petefred_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Jul 03 2007 - 16:43:14 CDT
Hi Audrey,
for now, for building RNA you may want to have a look at nucgen
(http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/11/3/281;
distributed with AMBER). I have not used it myself, but as far as I know
it should do what you want. I'm hoping to make the molefacture plugin of
VMD usable for all of this kind of structure building, but I haven't yet
had time to finish the nucleic acid builder.
Best,
Peter
Audrey Salazar wrote:
> Dear NAMD list,
> I am a first year graduate student and I hope to model small RNA in
> NAMD. As a test case, I hope to build a pdb for a single stranded RNA
> with 2 nucleotides (for e.g. GG). Thus far, I am having troubles
> locating or creating this file. Does anyone have any suggestions? I
> will delineate what I have already tried below:
>
> 1) I located pdb files for single nucleotides under the RNA
> nucleotides section on the following webpage:
> http://chemistry.gsu.edu/glactone/PDB/DNA_RNA/dna.html
> <http://chemistry.gsu.edu/glactone/PDB/DNA_RNA/dna.html>
>
> 2) At the suggestion of the archives of the namd-l listserv,
> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/namd/mailing_list/namd-l/5086.html
> <http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/namd/mailing_list/namd-l/5086.html>
> and http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/namd/mailing_list/namd-l/5087.html
> , I located namot. The program has fallen into disuse and does not
> appear to be compatible with a version of Motif supported by our
> version of RHE and X-View is outdated as well. I decided to search
> for a different program.
>
> 3) I located a program called MOLMOL
> (http://hugin.ethz.ch/wuthrich/software/molmol/) that is capable of
> reading and writing pdb files. I have been able to successfully
> compile the program, but very little information is available on it
> and the mailing list is no longer maintained. Using the default
> library ( Amber94.lib), I have been unable to see then entire
> structure of the G rna nucleotide that I downloaded from the website
> in section 1. When I import the pdb into MOLMOL, the program
> complains that there are residues contained in the pdb that are not
> defined in the default pdb library, and thus part of the nucleotide is
> not visible in the MOLMOL viewer. I followed the suggestions listed
> under "Residue Libraries" here,
> http://hugin.ethz.ch/wuthrich/software/molmol/man/config.htm , to no
> avail.
>
> Any recommendations on how to build a pdb from scratch or from smaller
> chunks of pdbs would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> Audrey
> --
> Audrey L. Salazar
> Amaral Research Group
> Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering Phone: 847.491.2188
> Northwestern University
> Evanston, IL USA
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