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From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_gmail.com)
Date: Sun Mar 14 2010 - 21:19:30 CDT

On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Ziemys, Arturas
<Arturas.Ziemys_at_uth.tmc.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I realized that VMD does not support  CHARMM general FF as  it has atom types of 6 character length. Is there any solutions to use VMD preparing structures with CGenFF ?

as far as i can see, VMD itself can handle atom types with arbitrary
length, the molfile
plugin API limits names and types to 15 characters, and psfgen seems
to be able to
handle up to 7 characters for names and types.

axel.

> Arturas
>
> 

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Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer    akohlmey_at_gmail.com
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Institute for Computational Molecular Science
Temple University, Philadelphia PA, USA.