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Next: CHARMM “top_all22*" and “par_all22*" Up: Topology, Parameters and Molecular Previous: Example: Reducing Parameters Learned


Topology and Parameter Files

This section describes the most important parameter and topology files that are distributed with X-PLOR. A pair of parameter and topology files represents a force field or empirical energy function. Force fields are supplied for proteins, nucleic acids, carbohydrates, and lipids, as well as a number of other biological molecules. All parameter files represent polar hydrogens (i.e., hydrogens that can form hydrogen bonds) explicitly, whereas aliphatic hydrogens are either explicitly included or implicitly modeled by appropriate modification of the heavy-atom van der Waals parameters. A number of specialized force fields are available for X-ray crystallographic or NMR-spectroscopic structure determination. All parameter and topology files can be found in the “toppar" directory.



Subsections
  • CHARMM “top_all22*" and “par_all22*" All Hydrogen Force Field
  • CHARMM “toph19.pro" and “param19.pro" Files for Proteins (Explicit Polar Hydrogens)
  • CHARMM “toph11.dna" and “param11.dna" Files for Nucleic Acids (Explicit Polar Hydrogens)
  • Files “topnah1e.dna" and “parnah1e.dna" for Nucleic Acids (Explicit All Hydrogens)
  • AMBER/OPLS “tophopls.pro", “parhopls.pro" Files (Explicit Polar Hydrogens)
  • Files “toph19.sol" and “param19.sol" for Water (TIP3p Model)
  • Files “toph3.cho" and “param3.cho" for Carbohydrates
  • Files “toph19.chromo" and “param19.chromo" for Chromophores
  • Files “parhcsdx.pro" and “tophcsdx.pro" for Crystallographic Refinement (Polar Hydrogens)
  • Files “parallhdg.pro" and “topallhdg.pro" for NMR Structure Determination of Proteins (All Hydrogens)
    • Van der Waals radii
    • Convention for Hydrogen Names

  • Files “parallhdg.dna" and “topallhdg.dna" for NMR Structure Determination of Nucleic Acids (All Hydrogens)


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