input coordinates & charges

[Axel]

dear csilla,

On May 7, 11:55 am, Csilla Varnai <cv... at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am trying to read a small peptide to run an MD calculation. I cannot
> define the atomic charges in the FORCEFIELD section, because there is
> no one-to-one mapping between the atomic types and the atomic charges
> in case of peptides. Hence, I need to read in the charges. I have


i'm a bit confused as to why you want to manually enter
all the topology parameters? why don't you just use a
tool like psfgen from VMD/NAMD to build a .psf file that
contains all the information more or less automatically?

cheers,
    axel.


> found only 1 way to do it so far, namely reading it from a PDB file.
> My problem is that in this case I loose the accuracy of the
> coordinates, since this format is fairly restricted and I cannot read
> the coordinates only at a +/-0.001 level.
> Could anyone please help me, if there is a better way I've missed to
> get both the charges and the coordinates at a given accuracy?
> Thanks very much,
>
> Csilla
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