[gmx-users] polymer simulation

[David van der Spoel]

On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 14:11, konradpi at poczta.onet.pl wrote:
> Hello all,
> I use gromacs for my polymer simulations and have two questions about that:
> - does anyone know good parameters for poly-alkylo-thiophenes, especially for sulfur in thiophene ring and the connection between ring and alkyl.
> - providing I have got right parameters for one mer, what is the common way to generate a topology for polymer (20-mers eg). I tried to develop my own itp file for one mer and a generator, that duplicates it, but it is not easy. Would it be easier to create a new residue and use pdb2gmx? (In manual I was discouraged about that)
> 
if you have a few monomer types then pdb2gmx is the easiest way.
you need to make
rtp entry
hdb entry
and to do something about the ends., for proteins that's handled in 
XXX-c.tdb and XXX-n.tdb files.

Alternatively you can write a script that generates a topology (only if
it is very simple) or evenuse the x2top program (but that requires
hacking in files too, look for a XXX.n2t file).


> thanks for any help
> Konrad Piwowarczyk
> Faculty of Physics and Nuclear Techniques
> AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków Poland
> 
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Groeten, David.
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