[gmx-users] Nanotube and Periodic Boundary Conditions

[David]

On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 20:49 -0400, Bob Johnson wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> I am simulating an infinate carbon nanotube and a single stranded DNA molecule.
> I am using the Amber force field for the DNA molecule. Thus, I generate my
> topology and coordinates in Amber's Xleap and then convert the topology to the
> GROMACS format. However, it seems that I am unable to use periodic boundary
> conditions for the nanotube this way. I was told before that I should generate
> the nanotube topology using x2top and use pbc = full. Can I still have an
> infinite nanotube when the topology is generated with another program? I always
> use pbc = full and it seems that it isn't working if I don't use x2top.

These things are unrelated. If you want to use constraints you have to
download the CVS version of GROMACS.

Yuo will have to merge the topologies by hand using suitable AMBER
replacements for the atomtypes in the nanotube.

> Thanks,
> Bob Johnson
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David.
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