[gmx-users] position restraints for different protein atoms

[Justin Lemkul]

On 2/20/16 11:16 PM, Irem Altan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a way to generate position restraint files such that the main chain
> atoms and the side chain atoms have different force constants? Similarly,

Yes, you can invoke genrestr with a suitable index group for whatever part of 
the protein you want to set up with a given force constant.

> would it be possible to constrain atoms with B-factors lower than a certain
> threshold?
>

Only if you devise a way to parse such information.  That probably involves 
writing your own script to parse the B-factors in a PDB file and write those 
atom numbers to an index file, which can then be fed to genrestr as stated above.

-Justin

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