[gmx-users] Unit of force constants and adding new residue.

Justin Lemkul jalemkul at vt.edu
Wed Jun 25 12:01:36 CEST 2014



On 6/25/14, 4:42 AM, Dawid das wrote:
> Dear Gromacs experts,
>
> I have a few questions regarding adding a new residue to the force field.
>
> 1) In what unit should provide force constants for stretching, bending and
> torsion in aminoacids.rtp file? I can't really figure that out from gromacs
> manual.
>

See table 5.5 in the manual; all units are listed there for all interaction types.

> 2) If I provide those constants and natural values of bond lengths, angles,
> etc.  in aminoacids.rtp file, do I need to provide them in ffbonded.itp?
>

No, values can be taken directly from the .rtp and written to the .top

> 3) My new residue has to be connected with two natural aminoacids (Phe,
> Gly, etc.). Where do I specify the parameters for new atom types (of my
> new  residue) and for these "regular" atom types? For example, torsion or
> stretching paramters where those two residues are connected.
>

Bonded parameters should be listed in ffbonded.itp.

-Justin

> What I want to do exactly is to add parameters from Tinker format FF for a
> chromophore of mCherry fluorescent protein. I try to do things according to
> this manual:
> http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/How-tos/Adding_a_Residue_to_a_Force_Field
>
> I will be grateful for any help :).
>
> Best wishes,
> Dawid Grabarek
>

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