[gmx-users] adding a new residue to residuetypes.dat

[Justin Lemkul]

On 7/25/15 10:19 AM, faride badalkhani wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> According to GROMACS Manual, we should add the residue name to the
> residuetypes.dat file when we are adding a new residue to the database.
> But. I am having a question in this regard. I need to add some residues
> pertaining to a polymer. Should I consider these residues as protein
> residues, DNA, or RNA?
>

If your polymer is none of the above then you don't need to do anything.  The 
residuetypes.dat file is used to make sure that there aren't weird hybrid 
molecules in pdb2gmx.

-Justin

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