[gmx-users] Using FFTK generated parameter file for Protein-Ligand simulations

[Justin Lemkul]

On 3/16/16 10:18 PM, Soumya Lipsa Rath wrote:
> Dear Gromacs Users,
>
> I have to run a protein-ligand system. I am using CHARMM36 ff for the
> simulation. For generating the parameters for the ligand molecule I used
> the forcefield development toolkit of vmd, which gives CHARMM compatible
> parameters.
>
> But, I am unable to understand how should I include the parameters I had
> obtained. I went through the tutorial files which shows an example of
> PRODRG server for generating the itp file, but my ligand contains metal
> atoms. I would appreciate if somebody could suggest me how to solve this.
>

What are the ligands?  What metal?

Don't use PRODRG; it's only intended for GROMOS force fields (and even then, the 
topologies need a lot of work).

-Justin

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