Casey,<br><br>Could you expand your criticism? You must have found the tutorials section on the wiki. Then please note the specific points you dislike about the tutorials there (especially the beginners) and provide some ideas you would think improve them. <br>
<br>To my opinion, a beginners tutorial provides a set of standard parameters, which will do for most of the simulations most of the users will encounter. There is not much benefit in writing such a file from scratch, although one should introduce the file and explain, also pointing to the file format. But then, if you have a .pdb file and parameters, md simulations are little more than 'punch in some commands', on top of the thinking about the process that is effected by that.<br>
<br>I forgive students who feel that they don't need to go beyond punching the commands to get the credits. But for someone like you, searching for a tutorial to get into MD, I would think that the commands and the surrounding text would be sufficient to keep you from only punching them in and obtain the output. It will by all means be sufficient for someone interested to extract the insights needed for getting started with MD. If you really want to go beyond that (but that's not tutorial work), you'll find the Gromacs documentation, explaining topologies and parameters in detail.<br>
<br>Cheers,<br><br>Tsjerk<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 12:24 AM, Joseph Johnson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:helstreak@hotmail.com">helstreak@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Are there any good tutorials that start from the very beginning, like assuming you only have a .pdb file? It seems that most of the tutorials I've found have already generated the files you need and then all you have to do is punch in some commands. Where can I learn to actually write the molecular dynamics input file and all that good stuff?<br>
<br>Thanks for your time and help,<br>Casey<br><br><hr>Windows Live™: Keep your life in sync. <a href="http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_BR_life_in_synch_052009" target="_blank">Check it out.</a></div>
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