varsha gautham wrote:
Dear all,
Thanks for all your valuble suggestion in helping me to build
polymer.I sucessfully built the polymer and its working fine without
any issue.
Now my next step is to insert the polymer in aqueous phase of a lipid
bilayer.How can i do that with gromacs?,since am a new user to
gromacs,please give me detailed procedure on this.THanks a lot in
advance.
Solvating a structure is a basic procedure in GROMACS - you should look
at some tutorial material and see how genbox can be used.
I would approach your problem by taking a pre-equilibrated bilayer and
stripping away the waters. Then judicious use of editconf on that
coordinate file and your polymer coordinate file will have sets of
coordinates in both that correspond to the polymer being in the gap left
by the water. Then you can either paste in your polymer with a text
editor (updating the atom count in the .gro file appropriately, see
http://www.gromacs.org/documentation/reference/online/gro.html), or try
"solvating" the polymer with the membrane file with genbox. Then finally
solvate the lipid+polymer with genbox in the normal fashion.
This will not be easy for a beginner. You should consult
http://wiki.gromacs.org/index.php/Membrane_Simulations, and read the man
pages for genbox and editconf thoroughly. Good luck!
Mark
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