[gmx-users] Coordinate file for charmm36 POPC

[Justin Lemkul]

On 8/14/14, 8:29 AM, yashita thakur wrote:
> Thank you Ariel for your reply.
>
> How to know what should be the size of system.
> Like it should be 30,000 or more. Then how to mention it.
> secondly how to know how many lipid POPC should be added. In united-atom
> Berger model from Peter Tieleman POPC number is 128.
> Should I ass that much or more that that??
>
> Can I use Peter's coordinate file deleting water and follow the same step
> as mention in Justin A. Lemkul tutorial??
>

If you want to use CHARMM36, then no, you should not use united-atom lipids 
equilibrated under a different force field.  You can get a suitable CHARMM36 
membrane from http://terpconnect.umd.edu/~jbklauda/research/download.html

The size of the membrane patch depends on the size of the protein you need to 
simulate.  For modest-sized proteins, 128 lipids is enough.  For larger 
proteins, you will need to extend the membrane using genconf or genbox.

-Justin

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