Frank Neuhaus wrote:
Gmx-users,
I am in the process of deciding on a force field library for a MD
simulation. In reading Lemkul et al I get the impression that
GROMOS96 43A1 is probably the one to use. I am trying to do a simulation
Hopefully you have not gotten the impression from our work that Gromos96 43A1 is
somehow a superior force field. In fact, it is not. More recent editions of
the force field probably perform better, and there are other (non-Gromos) force
fields that may be more suitable for various applications. Our work was simply
motivated by the fact that PRODRG produces notoriously unreliable parameters,
but this fact has been long overlooked in a wide variety of literature and
Gromos96 parameterization remains somewhat mysterious. So we made some
recommendations.
with a ligase that binds ADP, 2Mg, D-alanine and D-lactate. From these
authors, I have the impression that PRODRG is probably not the way to
go. Are there other possibilities? or should I stick to 43A1? Comment
PRODRG is not a good choice for final topologies, but it can be very useful in
generating a skeleton topology for further refinement. Alanine and lactate
should be reasonably easy to parameterize (with alanine being already built in).
ADP and ions are already part of 43A1, so the only "unknown" is lactate, but
given the fact that all its functional groups can be defined by Gromos96
building blocks, parameterizing it should be no challenge at all.
-Justin
Thx.
Frank Neuhaus
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Justin A. Lemkul
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ICTAS Doctoral Scholar
MILES-IGERT Trainee
Department of Biochemistry
Virginia Tech
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