[gmx-users] crosslinking polypeptide chains

[Justin Lemkul]

On 2/16/16 11:22 AM, Nash, Anthony wrote:
> Thank Justin and Mark,
> 
> Apologies for not stripping out earlier content from my lazy “Reply”
> email. It was a slight of hand.
> 
> It had crossed my mind to simply make two separate residues as you both
> suggested. Although I was trying to make most of this interchangeable with
> the Amber suite (this is an amber forcefield, but unlike my colleagues, I
> prefer working in Gromacs), in which XLeap can do this.
> However, with respects to Gromacs, what would happen to the charges? I
> would essentially have two charge groups if I split them, both not an
> integer, but when summed as a pair they would be 0 charge. Is this
> acceptable?
> 

Nothing wrong with that at all.  AMBER doesn't use multi-atom charge groups,
anyway (and they're ignored by Verlet, too).

-Justin

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