Support Programs and Data Files
This section describes supplimentary programs and data files
included in the CHARMM 22.0.b package.
* Menu:
* Boundary:: Deformable boundary potential files
* IMTRAN:: Image transformation files
Deformable Boundary Potential Files
A deformable boundary potential (DBP) file is required to run the
stoichastic boundary molecular dynamics (SBMD) simulatiuon. Only
spherical DBP's are included in the current release. In the future
release, cylindrical boundaries and plane shape boundaries will be
incorporated and the DBP generation routine will also be available
through CHARMM.
~/charmm/support/bpot (or [...CHARMM.SUPPORT.BPOT] on VMS
machines) contains DBP files for the TIP3P water in a spherical
simulation zone with 8 to 25 angstrom effective radius. These DBP
files are generated by using Charlie Brooks' MFFGEN1 program and the
CHARMM SBOUND command. The effective radius is set to the Langevin
and reservior region boundary (the reaction zone radius). Then, the
boundary radius used in the DBP generating program (e.g., MFFGEN1.EXE
on HUCHE1.HARVARD.EDU) should be larger than the reaction zone radius
by the water oxygen van der Waals radius. The reaction zone radius
plus 1.7682 angstrom (the TIP3P water oxygen vdW radius) is used to
generate the DBP for a given effective radius sphere. The nonbonded
cutoff of 7.5 angstrom is used in the DBP generation procesure. Those
DBP files can be used in simulations with different nonbonded cutoff
distances.
See *note Sbound: (sbound.doc), for details on the SBOUND
command.
Image Transformation Files
~/charmm/support/imtran contains the following image
(transformation) files reproduced from the Harvard lecture notes.
alpha.img Image file for alpha-I helix
Parameter 1 is set to the translation / unit cell along z.
Parameter 2 is set to the rotation / unit cell around z.
dnahelix.img Image file to generate infinite DNA-helix
Helix axis is along z, and the second strand is generated
from the first through a 180 deg rotation around x.
Parameter 1 is set to the translation / unit cell along z.
Parameter 2 is the rotation / unit cell around z
("helical twist"), degrees.
p21c.img Image transformation file for P21 crystals
The 32 nearest neighbors are kept.
Parameters 6,7,8 and 9 are used to set unit cell parameters.
tips.img Image file for cubic transformation
Parameter 9 is set to the box size.
See *note Images: (images.doc), and *note
Crystl: (crystl.doc), for details.
NIH/DCRT/Laboratory for Structural Biology
FDA/CBER/OVRR Biophysics Laboratory
Modified, updated and generalized by C.L. Brooks, III
The Scripps Research Institute