mosdef-hub / gmso

Flexible storage of chemical topology for molecular simulation
https://gmso.mosdef.org
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Support for virtual sites #196

Open rmatsum836 opened 4 years ago

rmatsum836 commented 4 years ago

I want to get the discussion started on this. For now I'm mostly referring to the virtual interaction sites supported by Gromacs (ftp://ftp.gromacs.org/pub/manual/manual-5.0.7.pdf) although I think some of these are supported by OpenMM as well.

I think right now, it's best to add support for the simple 2 and 3 site types and worry about the rest later.

What I'm trying to workout in my head is how these sites are going to get defined, as the virtual sites technically aren't bonded to their neighboring atoms.

Gromacs:

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mattwthompson commented 4 years ago

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