[gmx-users] question about dihedral constraints

Tom dnaafm at gmail.com
Fri Jan 11 03:28:07 CET 2013


Dear Gromacs Users,

I want to use dihedral constraint in gmx.

I directly type the following onto my  topol.top file :
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[ dihedral_restraints ]
; ai   aj    ak    al  type  label  phi  dphi  kfac  power
; phi C'(n-1) - N - CA - C'
   506    505     502    503     1      1  180     0     1      2
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Do I also need to add these to *mdp file?
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dihre                     = yes
dihre_fc                  = 15000
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Because I only need to contraint some of the dihedrals,
I will  not constraints all of them.
If I add the above on  *mdp file, will all the dihedrals be constrainted?

Another quesiton is what is the format of this dihedral constraints
on *rtp file? How about the angle constraints? That would save a lot
of work if pdb2gmx can automatically add these constraints to *top file.

Thanks a lot for the help!

Steven



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