From: Kevin C Chan (cchan2242-c_at_my.cityu.edu.hk)
Date: Wed May 27 2015 - 00:18:58 CDT

Dear Users,

As CHARMM-GUI returns membrane of randomly sequential multi-components of
lipids in pdb, I used psfgen to group the same type of lipid. As a result,
the psf and pdb contain non-sequential resID (like
<resname>:DOPC,DOPC,DOPC,...,DOPC,POPI,POPI,...,POPI,...
<resid>:1,3,5,...,266,2,4,...,278,...). I guess the files are still
available for production runs, but it is better to have sequential resIDs.
Does anyone have a script for re-numbering these resIDs?

I have noticed a thread on the list (
http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/mailing_list/vmd-l/8479.html) also
re-numbering a multi-segment pdb and psf. Unfortunately the codes:

set sel [atomselect top all]
$sel set resid [$sel get residue]
$sel writepdb renumbered.pdb

do not solve my problem as VMD cannot automatically recognize the correct
number of residues, i.e. it may count 3 residue instead of 1 for one single
POPI. I am confused by how VMD counts residues when reading a pdb.

I will appreciate any alternative.

Thanks in advance,

Kevin
City University of Hong Kong