[gmx-users] restraining to center of geometry?

[David]

On Sun, 2004-01-25 at 04:00, Michael Shirts wrote:
> Hello, all-
> 
> So, supposing I had a protein, and wanted to restrain a ligand by attaching
> it with a spring to some point that wasn't actually an atom -- say it was
> the center of geometry of a number of atoms around the binding pocket, so that
> it's a point that redefines itself at each step of the simulation.
> 
> 1) Is this possible to do using either the position restraint or distance
> restraint tools in GROMACS?
> 
> 2) If not, how might one modify the code to put this in?
If this is dynamic, like the centre of mass of a group, you might add
something using a user group. Compute the center of mass of your user
group and call the position restraint routine. The good thing (TM) is
that you don't have to program any I/O.

> 
> Thanks,
> Michael Shirts
> Stanford University.
> 
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David.
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