N-terminus and loops

It should not work with Terminal situations

> I am trying to model several loops and the N-terminus of my protein at the same time using the pose-based loop modeling with CCD closure.
> This works fine for the loops, but not for the N-terminus, which causes rosetta to crash. From the wiki page:
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> “Terminal loops can also be specified in a similar fashion, but obviously no chainbreak will be introduced.”
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> In my loops.txt file I added a line
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> 1 24 0 1
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> my command line is
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> rosetta.exe aa 1FOO A -s 1FOO -pose -loops -fold_with_dunbrack -pose_loops_file loops.txt -ex1 -ex2 -fa_input -fa_output
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> If I just have the N-terminus, rosetta crashes. If I only specify the other (non-terminal) loops, it works.
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> Is this supposed to work?
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> Many Thanks,
> S.

You can use the peptide extension protocol to model termini. It is described in Sood & Baker (2006). There is also documentation in the rosetta++ README and some scripts in the rosetta_scripts/peptide_extension/ directory to help you.