[gmx-users] multiple chain

[Justin Lemkul]

On 9/5/13 10:09 PM, Nur Syafiqah Abdul Ghani wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Need your help to explain more about this multiple chain.I would like
> to do a simulation with a multiple type identical protein. By using
> the instruction that gromacs wrote in
> 'http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/How-tos/Multiple_Chains', seem
> that i'm a bit lost when it tells us to us the .top file for grompp
> input and need to change the coordinate..Any one had facing this time
> problem?
>
> Btw i already do the pdb2gmx command for single protein and only don't
> understand after i put the number of amount of protein that i want in
> .top file.
>

The number of molecules in the .top must correspond to a configuration you have 
built that has the same number of molecules.  You can position molecules in the 
unit cell using editconf and the various options it provides (centering, 
translation, rotation).

-Justin

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