[gmx-users] [Fwd: Gromacs Help]

[David]

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>From: Lee Cheng Siang <lee at univ-montp2.fr>
>To: spoel at xray.bmc.uu.se, lpoulsen at chem.au.dk
>Subject: Gromacs Help
>Date: 27 Jun 2003 16:30:25 +0200

>Hello Dr. Spoel and Dr. Poulsen,
>
>My name is Kenichi and I'm a graduate student in France doing MD  
>simulations on polymer systems. I got your e-mails from the gmx-user  
>group while trying to figure out how to build topology files for my  
>polymer to get it submitted under Gromacs for MD simulation.
>
>My polymer is  from a bifunctional epoxy monomer which polymerize under  
>UV irradiation to produce highly cross-linked polymer structure. I used  
>Amorphous Cell from Accelrys to create the PBC box and then I exported  
>it to .pdb format.
If the polymerization is regular/simple like in a protein then use pdb2gmx, otherwise 
use x2top, the latter seems most likely to work. You will have to modify library files,
more in particular I suggest you use copy the file ffgmx.n2t to your working directory 
and iteratively run x2top and update the file until you get a topology. You may need a 
lot of memory, since the program is O(N^2) in memory IIRC.


>I then submit it to pdb2gmx, it did not work, nor does x2top.
This sort of information is not very helpful, I'm afraid.
>
>I did not really understand the thread in gmx-user list discussion. So  
>may I have some more clarification on how did you manage to solve the  
>problem?

>There are a total of 7031 atoms in my PBC box.

>I thank you very much.


>"Sans la liberté de blâmer, il n'est pas d'éloge flatteur" -  
>Beaumarchais.
C'est tres facile de blâmer

-- 
Groeten, David.
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Dr. David van der Spoel, 	Dept. of Cell and Molecular Biology
Husargatan 3, Box 596,  	75124 Uppsala, Sweden
phone:	46 18 471 4205		fax: 46 18 511 755
spoel at xray.bmc.uu.se	spoel at gromacs.org   http://xray.bmc.uu.se/~spoel
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