[gmx-users] BASIC FOUNDATION/CONCEPTS used in GROMACS

[Smith, Micholas D.]

In addition to Justin's suggestions, I would highly recommend looking at Rapport's book: D. C. Rapaport (1996) The Art of Molecular Dynamics Simulation. ISBN 0-521-44561-2. It is a standard go-to for the foundations of MD simulations. 

-Micholas

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Micholas D. Smith, PhD.
Post-doctoral Research Associate
University of Tennessee/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Center for Molecular Biophysics
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From: gromacs.org_gmx-users-bounces at maillist.sys.kth.se <gromacs.org_gmx-users-bounces at maillist.sys.kth.se> on behalf of Justin Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2014 7:33 AM
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Subject: Re: [gmx-users] BASIC FOUNDATION/CONCEPTS used in GROMACS

On 10/8/14 7:18 AM, amitabh jayaswal wrote:
> Dear All,
> Greetings!
> 1. By education and training and experience I've been a Biologist.
> 2. I'm attempting MD Simulations for the first time in life.
> 3. Because of the neatly designed tutorials by Dr. J. Lemkul I've been able
> to do MD of/from the tutorials.
> 4. But I'm still struggling with the concepts OR the foundations which
> GROMACS uses. For example:
> a.) The mathematical terms.
> b.) The computational jargon-flags, options, parameters...
> c.) The CONCEPTS of MD SIMULATION itself - used by GROMACS; say why LJ
> potential? What relevance it has to MD? Why was it chosen over other
> alternatives?
> These I need to UNDERSTAND to be able to make any sense out of my success
> at GROMACS and do some worthwhile analysis.
>
> Please guide me by pointing to some suitable forum (the GROMACS fora seems
> too technically advanced for me right now) OR text.

Try textbooks by Cramer, Leach, or Frenkel and Smit.

-Justin

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