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Dear sir,
To generate a model containing Hydrogen atoms, is it necessary that templates should have Hydrogen atoms too or these will be modeled by MODELER itself?
Thanking you,
sincerely,
Vivek Sharma
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On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 04:24:55PM +0200, vivek sharma wrote: > To generate a model containing Hydrogen atoms, is it necessary that > templates should have Hydrogen atoms too or these will be modeled by > MODELER itself?
No, the templates do not need to have hydrogen atoms. See the examples/all-hydrogens directory in the Modeller distribution for an example of building such a model.
Bear in mind that while Modeller will construct hydrogen atoms for you, their position is determined solely by the parameter files; no homology-derived restraints are used.
Ben Webb, Modeller Caretaker
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