[gmx-users] Lipid parameterization

[Justin Lemkul]

On 6/14/16 2:04 PM, Christopher Neale wrote:
> You might see if CHARMM_GUI has parameters for it. This is not to say that
> they will be amazing parameters, as I have not looked into their approach to
> generate parameters and it may well be rational cut and paste, but they do
> have parameters for loads of lipids. If they don't have parameters, you might
> also consider asking them to put your HG on their to-do list. My
> understanding is that they want to add useful moieties.
>

CHARMM-GUI has access to the full CHARMM force field, and the full complement of 
every lipid parametrized for it (which is indeed quite extensive).  If a 
particular molecule (lipid type) is missing, it will call ParamChem (the CGenFF 
program's web server) to generate a topology for the full molecule.  As I said 
in my first reply, this would be suboptimal as most of the necessary parameters 
will already be in the highly optimized CHARMM36 lipid force field.  Without 
knowing what the OP wants to work with, it's hard to say further, but I expect 
most of the work will already be done, and one needs to address a suitable model 
compound or two to work out any new linkages.

-Justin

> Chris.
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> Dear Gromacs users,
>
> I am trying to parameterize a lipid molecule with a weird headgroup :-) in
> Charmm36 force field for doing simulation in GROMACS. Reading through
> literature, I found that Swissparam, and Paramchem.org are two useful tools
> to make the topology files automatically.
>
> However, both seems to be suitable for small drug-like molecules than large
> biological molecules, like lipids. Swissparam is a mixture of charmm
> parameters and MMFF and is not based on any specific CHARMM FF version.
> Paramcharm has also recommended to not use it for biological molecules.
>
> Although lipids are biological molecules, but I was wondering what will
> happen if we consider the "whole synthetic lipid" as a drug-like molecule.
>
>
> In this case, we might be able to mix it with other lipids which have been
> parameterized in Charmm36?
>
> Thanks in advance for your comments Cheers Mohsen -- *Rewards work better
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Justin A. Lemkul, Ph.D.
Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow

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