[gmx-users] carbohydrate parameters in ffG53a6

Rasoul nasiri1355 at gmail.com
Sat Aug 28 20:06:42 CEST 2010


On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Justin A. Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu> wrote:

>
> Rasoul wrote:
>
>> For the sugar parameters you can use Glycam parameters
>> http://glycam.ccrc.uga.edu/documents/gl_params.jsp
>> After with specific script it can be convert to Gromac readable file:
>>
>> http://www.gromacs.org/index.php?title=Download_%26_Installation/User_contributions/Other_software
>>
>>
> Mixing and matching force field parameters is a very bad idea.  To have a
> valid
> physical model, parameters should be derived in compatible ways.
>
> It has good consistency with Amber FF :J Comput Chem 29: 622–655, 2008.

-Justin
>
> Rasoul

>  I hope it would be useful for you.
>>
>> Rasoul
>> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Justin A. Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu<mailto:
>> jalemkul at vt.edu>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>    Jianhui Tian wrote:
>>
>>        Hi Parichita,
>>
>>        Thanks for the suggestion. However, the question is what
>>        parameters from ffG53a6 can be used for not included sugars or
>>        glycolipid. I guess you can not simply use the charge, angle and
>>        dihedral values based on the atom types from 53a6.
>>
>>
>>    Gromos building blocks are quite transferable between different
>>    molecules. Compare a few sugars - the parameters are nearly
>>    identical.  That is one of the central features of this particular
>>    force field, that functional group charges should be as versatile as
>>    possible.
>>
>>    As for the lipids, there are new versions of 53A6 (which I believe
>>    have been uploaded to the Gromacs site) that perform substantially
>>    better than the built-in parameters.  The long acyl chains are not
>>    particularly accurate in the default 53A6.
>>
>>    -Justin
>>
>>        Jianhui
>>
>>        Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:18:49 +0530 (IST)
>>        From: parichita parichita <parichitamajumdar at yahoo.co.in
>>        <mailto:parichitamajumdar at yahoo.co.in>
>>        <mailto:parichitamajumdar at yahoo.co.in
>>        <mailto:parichitamajumdar at yahoo.co.in>>
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>>        Hi Jianhui,
>>         For your sugar part you can use PRODRG, which will convert
>>        coordinates for small molecules in PDB format (or simple text
>>        structures) to the following topology formats: GROMOS, GROMACS
>>        and  from literature if you can find out the parameters of
>>        ffG53a6 force field,  then you can correct the charge, angle and
>>        dihedral values that you are collected from the PRODRG. Hope
>>        this will help you.
>>        Regards...
>>        Parichita...........
>>
>>
>>                 Parichita Mazumder Research Fellow
>>        C/O Dr. Chaitali Mukhopadhayay
>>        Department of Chemistry
>>        University of Calcutta
>>        92,A P C Road
>>        Kolkata-700009
>>        India.
>>
>>        --- On Wed, 18/8/10, Jianhui Tian <jianhuitian at gmail.com
>>        <mailto:jianhuitian at gmail.com> <mailto:jianhuitian at gmail.com
>>
>>        <mailto:jianhuitian at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>        From: Jianhui Tian <jianhuitian at gmail.com
>>        <mailto:jianhuitian at gmail.com> <mailto:jianhuitian at gmail.com
>>        <mailto:jianhuitian at gmail.com>>>
>>
>>        Subject: [gmx-users] carbohydrate parameters in ffG53a6
>>        To: gmx-users at gromacs.org <mailto:gmx-users at gromacs.org>
>>        <mailto:gmx-users at gromacs.org <mailto:gmx-users at gromacs.org>>
>>
>>
>>        Date: Wednesday, 18 August, 2010, 10:16 AM
>>
>>
>>        Hi,
>>
>>        I want to do some simulations about carbohydrates and
>>        glycolipid. In the ffG53a6.rtp file, I just see limited
>>        parameters for carbohydrate, like monosaccharide Glucose,
>>        Mannose and Galactose. What parameters can be used for others
>>        like arabinose? Also, is there any parameters available in the
>>        Gromacs force field for glycolipid?
>>
>>        Jianhui
>>
>>
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