[gmx-users] Harmonic distance restraint during simulation

Xavier Periole X.Periole at rug.nl
Sat Sep 6 12:25:58 CEST 2008


On Sat, 06 Sep 2008 06:13:35 -0400
  "Justin A. Lemkul" <jalemkul at vt.edu> wrote:
> 
> 
> Manoj Kumar Singh wrote:
>>   What if I want to restrain distance between two different molecules. I
>> tried this and getting error. I looked at some previous posts and didn't
>> find any solution to this. Some of them say it is limitation of Gromacs.
>> 
> 
> Since distance restraints are added to the topology of one molecule, I 
>believe than can only be applied intramolecularly.
Justin is right, it has to be intramolecular, but you can merge the two
topologies in one and then add your distance restraint.
try: pdb2gmx -merge
> -Justin
> 
>>   Is there any way I can put distance restraint between atoms of two
>> different molecules?
>> 
>> Thanks in advance!
>> 
>> Manoj
>> 
>> 
>> Manoj Kumar Singh wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I want to put distance based restrain between few pairs of atoms during
>>> initial dynamics (along with Lincs on hbonds). I don't know how can I do
>>> this.
>>>
>> 
>> Section 4.3.4 of the manual is probably a good start.
>> 
>> -Justin
>> 
>>> I will highly appreciate any suggestion.
>>>
>>> Manoj
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>> Virginia Tech
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> Justin A. Lemkul
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