force field generation

Force Field Toolkit

http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/plugins/fftk/

 

 

A CHARMM forcefield topology file contains all of the information needed to convert a list of residue names into a complete PSF structure file. It also contains internal coordinates that allow the automatic assignment of coordinates to hydrogens and other atoms missing from a crystal PDB file.

At the beginning of the file is the header, indicated by lines beginning with *s, followed in this case by ``31 1" to indicate the version of CHARMM that generated the file.

The topology file must define the type, mass, and charge of every atom in every residue, so that a PSF file can be constructed.

the mass of every atom type is declared once at the beginning of the file in a MASS statement.

enumerating all of the required angles and dihedrals would be tedious and error-prone, as well as enormously complicated since every combination of residues joined by a peptide bond would require a different set. Therefore, angles and dihedrals are automatically generated for every pair or triple of connected bonds when a segment is built. This autogeneration may be enabled or disabled on a per-segment basis as it should never be used on segments of water, but the default is defined in the topology file:

AUTO ANGLES DIHE

 

 

http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Training/TutorialsOverview/namd/namd-tutorial-win-html/node25.html 

ATb (Automated Topology Builder and Repository)

This server only provide the topology for GROMACS(*.itp)

http://compbio.biosci.uq.edu.au/atb/index.py?tab=home_tab

 

this link has a video link of introduction of vmd force field toolkit:
http://presentations.acs.org/common/presentation-detail.aspx/Fall2013/COMP/COMPchoice/14581

Molefacture manual is here.

CHARMm Principles