[gmx-users] Solvatebox from itp GAFF organic solvents and amber solute.

[Justin Lemkul]

On 8/4/15 10:45 AM, Sharapa wrote:
> Dear users and developers of Gromacs,
>
> I am new in MD in general and in Gromacs particulary.
> I want to make MD of small organic molecule in few organic solvents.
> My molecule containes Si and I made GAFF parameters for it. I would like to use
> GAFF in my simulation, expecting it to be not too bad for describing my system
> (that also contain pi-pi stacking).
> So far using ambertools I have .frchmod and prmtop files for my solute. I found
> .itp GAFF topology and .pdb GAFF Liquid structure files for solvents that i am
> interested in on http://virtualchemistry.org/ site. Nevetherless i still dont
> see the way how to create solvatebox with solute starting from data described
> above. I didn't found a tutorial describing similar procedures. If anyone can
> recommend me anything - i would be extremely thankful.
>

Because coordinates can't be built from topologies.  See 
http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/File_Formats/Coordinate_File#Sources for ideas.

-Justin

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