From: Ryan McGreevy (ryanmcgreevy_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Aug 12 2015 - 10:28:57 CDT

Yeping, can you check to make sure the situs file actually exists in the
directory you are trying to load it from? If it does, try to open it and
see if there is any text inside the file (if it is empty, something may
have gone wrong during the map simulation step).

On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 10:24 AM Josh Vermaas <vermaas2_at_illinois.edu> wrote:

> Hi Yeping,
>
> How was the situs file generated? Be very specific here, since I think the
> default in VMD is to generate a DX file instead, regardless of the file
> extension you give it. If I had to guess, you've just generated a
> DX-formatted situs file, which the situs reader can't open. Have you tried
> forcing VMD to load the file as a DX file?
>
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> Josh Vermaas
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> On 08/11/2015 10:19 AM, sunyeping wrote:
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> Dear all,
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> I am trying the MDFF tutorial. Following the first example of the tutorial
> In the first example of the tutorial (
> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Training/Tutorials/science/mdff/tutorial_mdff-html/node4.html
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.ks.uiuc.edu_Training_Tutorials_science_mdff_tutorial-5Fmdff-2Dhtml_node4.html&d=AwMDaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=f0N5v4NY00lzag1jzuVkui7_420G9K7DR41QSpC55bU&m=qRLaY5f-NR5WFGGyu-05Yq9lSfA-qgrgw7znfRMvNOA&s=wdEWfyJd7USxiFwDqlHoP365ef3oowzzivuIXnBrCvs&e=>),
> I loaded the protein molecule (4ake_target.pdb)and generate the psf file
> and then produced the map file (4AKE-target_autopsf.situs). However, I can
> not load this situs file into VMD. When I input "mol new
> 4AKE-target_autopsf.situs)" in VMD Tkconsole window, it returned "unable to
> load file '4AKE-target_autopsf.situs‘ using file type 'situs'. I have tried
> VMD-1.9.1 in Linux system and 1.9.2 in windows system, but the
> phenomena were the same. How might this error rose and how to resolve it?
> Thanks very much.
>
> Yeping Sun
>
> Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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