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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Protoc. 2017 Jan 12;12(2):255–278. doi: 10.1038/nprot.2016.169

TABLE 5.

Troubleshooting table.

Step Problem Possible reason Possible Solution
4 I uploaded a structure from my computer, but as soon as I submitted the job failed with the message: “Processing failed on receptor.” What is wrong? Inconsistency with the PDB format. Note that homology modeling tools frequently fail to produce correct PDB format, e.g., by not placing a chain identifier. Make sure that your file is in PDB format and has the required spacing between columns. Documentation with respect to the PDB file format can be found at: http://www.wwpdb.org/docs.html. Also, make sure that all ATOM records the PDB file contain only standard amino or nucleic acids.
I entered a HETATM record to include in the calculation, but it was not recognized. What do I do? At this point there is no option for considering heteroatoms (HETATM entries). Remove the HETATM records.
6 I uploaded a structure from my computer, but as soon as I submitted the job failed with the message: “Processing failed on ligand.” What is wrong? Inconsistency with the PDB format. Note that homology modeling tools frequently fail to produce correct PDB format, e.g., by not placing a chain identifier. See TROUBLESHOOTING for Step 4.
10 My job keeps crashing even though my input file looks fine. FFT grids are too large. This is typically caused by uploading a file output by homology modeling that has extremely large regions without a template, resulting in a tail that basically floats off into space. Use the Structure Modification Option to remove the questionable parts of the model.
14 I cannot load the docking results into my molecular viewer. Your viewer likely does not support multiple structures in one PDB file. Try using PyMol, available at www.pymol.org