[gmx-users] polymer-topology generation

[Justin Lemkul]

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-Justin


On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 4:33 PM, decaiyu <dyu at dow.com> wrote:

> Dear All,Can anyone help me find the link to the example to make polymer
> residue files?The link below does not work on the website.Best
> Regards,Decai
> Yu  GROMACS is well-suited for running simulations of polymeric materials.
> One of the questions frequently asked on the gmx-users list is how to
> create
> a topology for a polymer containing many repeat units.  Probably the
> simplest way is to create .rtp entries for the desired force field, and use
> pdb2gmx to create the topology.  To do so requires (at least) three types
> of
> residues to be defined: 1.A "starting" residue, defining the "beginning" of
> the chain 2.The repeat (internal) residues 3.An "ending" residue, defining
> the "end" of the chain An example of how to implement such entries can be
> found *here*, for the case of polyethylene under the OPLS-AA force field.
> There is also an online server that allows the user to build certain types
> of polymers, which does not solve the issue of building the topology, but
> can certainly be useful in generating the initial coordinates for the
> material.
>
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