[gmx-users] COM dummy atom and docking

[David van der Spoel]

On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Stephen Allen wrote:

>Hi all,
>I'm trying to perform the docking of a ligand to a protein moelcule using
>gromacs.  Is there a way of generating a dummy atom at the centre of mass for
>each molecule as a linear combination of atoms, so i can use a distance restraint
>to bring the two molecules together?  Is there a better, or simpler way of
>getting gromacs to perform a docking?
If you don't know the binding site/mode, I would advise you to use
another program, like Autodock. Maybe when I feel like it I will write an
Autodock implementation in Gromacs.


Groeten, David.
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