Dear All, 
 
I think, In order to continue a NAMD simulation in Gromacs I should first save 
the last coordinates (.coor file in namd ) as a pdb file and convert it into 
gro file . But there are many ways to get a gro file 
 
- using pdb2gmx ( but I should choose the force field in gromacs. This may be a 
problem. ) By the way, I changed CHARMM force field and use Amber type force 
field in NAMD.
 
-using VMD ( but I’m not sure if it works )
 
-using editconf in gromacs ( if you have the structure in pdb format, you can 
convert it into a .gro file with editconf. Also, the size of the box should be 
specified (in gromacs the length for the vectors a, b and c is in nm, not 
angstrom)
 editconf -f file.pdb -o file.gro -box a b c -angles 90 90 90
 
Could you share your ideas about this process ? What should I do ?
 
Then I should convert the psf file into gromacs top file. 
 
If I get a gro and top file correctly, I can continue NAMD simulation in 
Gromacs. Is it true ?
 
I examined the gromacs tutorials. And I think I must have a tpr and a xtc file 
to use gromacs analysis tools. I can get a xtc file from NAMD dcd file but how 
can I create a tpr file ?  Is there a way to get a tpr file from NAMD files? 
 
  
Kind regards.

--- On Thu, 9/30/10, Roland Schulz <[email protected]> wrote:


From: Roland Schulz <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [gmx-users] NAMD simulation in Gromacs
To: "Discussion list for GROMACS users" <[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, September 30, 2010, 10:13 AM





On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 7:55 AM, Mark Abraham <[email protected]> wrote:




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From: oguz gurbulak <[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, September 30, 2010 21:38
Subject: [gmx-users] NAMD simulation in Gromacs
To: [email protected]







> Dear All,
 
> I performed a 50 ns md simulation using NAMD and want to continue this 
> simulation for 10 ns in Gromacs. Is it possible to continue a NAMD simulation 
> in Gromacs ? If so, could you please give me the information about this 
> process ? 



Not really. You would need to generate a .top in the normal way, and this 
process cannot use any topology information that NAMD was using. You could 
start the GROMACS simulation from the endpoint of the NAMD simulation, but it 
would not be continuous in any sense.



We have a patch to psfgen to generate gromacs topology. We plan to put this on 
our website. While it hasn't be uploaded yet, please write me in case you would 
like to have a copy. It does convert the parameter files. We use Pär's scripts 
to do that part.
 







Secondly can I convert NAMD output files into gromacs output files and use 
gromacs analysis tools ? Could you please also give me the information about 
this issue ?
 
If you have VMD installed then GROMACS is supposed to be able to link to its 
libraries to enable GROMACS tools to read any file format that VMD can read, 
which will include all NAMD formats. I'm unaware that anybody has written any 
documentation about this, however. That's probably the path of least resistance.


Yes as long as VMD is installed (and GROMACS is compiled with DLOPEN support - 
which is default) all the GROMACS tools automatically can read most VMD 
supported format. The exception is any format which doesn't record the number 
of atoms (as e.g. Amber).


Roland
 
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