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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Protoc. 2017 Jan 26;12(2):401–416. doi: 10.1038/nprot.2016.180

Table 2.

Troubleshooting table

STEP PROBLEM POSSIBLE REASON SOLUTION
EQUIPMENT Rosetta does not compile. Likely to be related to the specific computer operating system and configuration Seek help on the Rosetta forums, www.rosettacommons.org/forum
4 Rosetta Antibody encounters error “ sh: blastp: command not found” The blastp executable is not installed or not in in your $PATH On the command line, try ‘ which blastp‘ to check if your system has it installed. If needed, download and install BLAST or/and add blastp to your PATH ( export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/blastp/). You can also specify the path using the command line flag -antibody:blastp /my/path
4 Rosetta Antibody encounters encounters “ BLAST Database error The blastp database is not specified, and Rosetta Antibody is not finding it in the default location ( $ROSETTA/tools/antibody/blast_database/) Specify the grafting database location with -antibody:grafting_database /database/location
4 Rosetta Antibody produces BLAST output (e.g. grafting/orientation.align) but does not produce structural models (e.g. model.0.pdb) Your version of BLAST+ may be out of date. Download a compatible version of BLAST+ (version 2.2.28 or later). See Materials section.
4 Regular expression failure for CDR identification Mutations in regions of the chain that Rosetta expects to be conserved prevent the sequence from being split into structural segments correctly. Check your antibody sequence against the printed regular expression used to detect the CDR. To accommodate unusual sequences, the regular expressions can be altered by changing the file database/protocol_data/antibody/cdr_regex.txt.
17 SnugDock reports “ERROR: Could not find disulfide partner for residue 23” A disulfide bond was disrupted during docking. You can disable disulfide bond detection with the flag -detect_disulf false
17 SnugDock reports “ERROR: ReturnSidechainMover used with poses of different sequence; aborting” The structures in the ensemble are not consistent. Make sure that all sturctures have identical length chains and that if there are multiple chains, those chains appear in a consistent order.
17 SnugDock reports error “chains are not named correctly or are not in the expected order” Input PDB does not contain chains in correct order (light, heavy, then antigen) or chain IDs are not L, H, and A. Adjust chain order in input PDB or specify chain IDs with the –partners AB_C flag, where A, B and C are the light, heavy, and antigen chain IDs, respectively.
2–17 Other Rosetta errors. Seek help on the Rosetta forums, www.rosettacommons.org/forum
2–17 Common fixes
  • Check for misspellings

  • Check paths are correct

  • Check FASTA formatting

  • Check PDB formatting