[gmx-users] incorporating itp files

[David van der Spoel]

On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Senthil Kandasamy wrote:

>I want to practice running some simulations using GROMCACS before I jump 
>into my specific system.
>So I downloaded some pdb files from Peter Tielemen's  web site. I chose the 
>dppc64.pdb file.
>The first order of business is to generate a .gro file, I guess.
>So I typed pdb2gmx -f dppc64.pdb using forcefield option 0.

pdb2gmx is only for proteins.
You can just use the pdb file as is (or convert it to gro with editconf).
Use the itp file by manually creating a top file around it (see printed
manual for the format).


Groeten, David.
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