[gmx-users] simulating ligands attached to a surface...?

[T.A.Wassenaar]

Hi Daniel,

What you want is well possible. In the topology file for 
the ligand (ligand.itp) add a something like:

[ position_restraint ]
    1    1000    0    0

Here, the first number is an atom identifier, 
corresponding to an atom under [ atoms ] and the number 
are the force constants for the restraints in the x, y and 
z direction. The directions in which it should move freely 
should be set to 0, obviously. Also check the manual (in 
case i misspelled something).

Hope it helps,

Tsjerk


On 21 Apr 2005 17:37:37 +0000
  Daniel Rigden <drigden at liverpool.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> Can anyone tell me if it's straightforward, or even 
>possible to simulate
> ligands that are attached to a surface?  The ligands are 
>permanently
> attached but may 'skate' around the two-dimensional 
>surface.  I was
> imagining that the atoms through which the ligands are 
>attached could be
> constrained in z while being free to explore x and y. 
> All the other
> atoms would explore x, y and z as normal.  Is that 
>possible in Gromacs?
> 
> Thanks very much for any advice
> 
> Daniel
> 
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