Introduction
All topologie and parameters to run MD simulation with Gromacs using
the
CHARMM
force-field [Bjelkmar et al, J. Chem. Theory Comp, (2010)] are
provided below. Parameters that could not be infered from the
existing CHARMM force-field have been derived from MMFF using
SwissParam
[Zoete et al,
J.Comp.Chem, (2011)].
For general
information about Gromacs, please refer to
http://www.gromacs.org/.
Installation
- Download SwissSidechain_gromacs.zip
in the directory were the charmm forcefield files are located
(typically $GMXDATA/gromacs/top/charmm27.ff/, where $GMXDATA is
the environment variable defined in the GMXRC)
- Replace the following files by the ones in
SwissSidechain_gromacs/: aminoacids.rtp, aminoacids.hdb, gb.itp,
ffbonded.itp, ffnonbonded.itp, atomtypes.atp. Warning:
always copy the original files somewhere else before overwriting
them.
- Replace residuetypes.dat in $GMXDATA/gromacs/top/ by this file
D-amino acids
If you have several D-amino acids that are present in SwissSidecain
in your structure, you can add these
topology files to
aminoacids.rtp and aminoacids.hdb, and this
file to residuetypes.dat.