[gmx-users] State B IN Topology

[Justin Lemkul]

On 2/23/16 7:18 PM, Sana Saeed wrote:
> HIi am making topology of protein ligand complex for calculating binding free
> energy. my question is do i need to define state B manually or is there any
> automatic method to do that. Second question is i want of number my ligand

If it's an absolute binding free energy, everything is handled in the .mdp file 
via couple-moltype and options related to the lambda vector.  If it's a relative 
binding free energy, you must manually specify the B-state in the topology.

> atom numbers from the number where protein atom numbers are stopped , like if
> protein's last atom is 100 then i want to start my ligand from 101. manually
> it will take lots of time because i will have to modify all the sections in
> topology file, is there any easy method? or i need to do that manually.

You should not do this.  You don't need to, and even if you do it, grompp will 
fail because the [moleculetype] will not be numbered from 1.  The global atom 
numbers in the coordinate file have no bearing on the [moleculetype] numbering 
in the topology.  The atoms need to be in the same order.  There is no need to 
merge topologies to carry out free energy calculations.

-Justin

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