[gmx-users] Can the structure built by Amorphous Cell of Materials Studio be used for GROMACS inputs?

[David van der Spoel]

wuxiao wrote:
> Hi, everybody,
> I am a freshman for using GROMACS. I used to do simulations using 
> Materials Studio. Now I notice that versatile analysis tools are present 
> in GROMACS, so I decide to turn for GROMACS. I have built some polymeric 
> structures using the Amorphous Cell module in Materials Studio4.0. Can 
> these structures be directly input into GROMACS for a further 
> simulations? How can I do that? Can you give some hints?
> Thanks a lot in advance.
>  
you can do polymer simulation in gromacs, but you need to built the 
topology file by hand, or using some kind of script that you write. if 
you have few different monomers you could build residues for use in 
pdb2gmx as well.
chapter 5 in the manual.

> Xiaowu
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David van der Spoel, PhD, Assoc. Prof., Molecular Biophysics group,
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