Sascha Rehm wrote:
Dear users,
quite some weeks ago I asked you for help in creating some organic
solvents with the OPLS force field.
I read chapter 5 and started to build the molecule structures and also
the corresponding itp-files. Since all of the needed atom types were
found in the OPLS forcefield, this worked fine.
One question I couldn't figure out was how I get the top-file.
I wanted to convert my solvent molecule with pdb2gmx into a .gro file,
add a box und fill it with more of the solvent molecules, to get a pure
solvent system.
But pdb2gmx doesn't know the molecule (of course, because it's not a
residue known to the forcefield). Normally I would add a "#include
solvent.itp" - line in the topology file of a system, so that gromacs
can deal with the unknown molecule (like I do when solvating a protein
with water). But in my case there is no topology-file, so I cannot
include an .itp-file
Question: Can someone tell me, how I can connect my molecule to my
.itp-file to build up a pure-solvent-system ? How do I continue after
building a structure and itp-file?
The main difference between a .top and a .itp file is that a .top is a
system-level topology, containing all molecule definitions for all species in
the simulation. At the top, the force field is specified, i.e.:
#include "ffoplsaa.itp"
This line that is not present in an .itp, which just contains a single molecule
definition.
After you've defined your molecule, include [ system ] and [ molecules ]
directives, and you've defined a .top file.
If these concepts are unfamiliar, perhaps some tutorial material using a simple
protein (processed by pdb2gmx) will give you some clues as to structure and
organization.
-Justin
I couldn't figure it out in the manual and didn't find anything in the
mailing list :-/
Thanks a lot,
Sascha
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