[gmx-users] Protein-Peptide Simulation help

[Justin Lemkul]

On 12/20/16 12:36 AM, Syed Azeem wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I'm trying to simulate a Protein-Peptide complex using GROMACS 5.1.4.
> For reference, I referred Justin Lemkul's Tutorial for Protein Ligand
> complexes. In which, the topology for ligand (small molecule) was
> generated using PRODRG.
>
> In my case, do I need to treat my peptide (16-mer) in such a way? Or
> just directly simulating the protein-peptide complex is good enough?
>

A peptide is a protein.  Do not use PRODRG or any other such tools; just build 
its topology with pdb2gmx using the normal force field.

-Justin

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