Hi there,
Is it possible to use the relax app to relax an structure while restraining the C-alpha coordinates to their initial positions in order to stop things blowing up? There seems to be an option -constrain_relax_to_start_coords but it doesn't appear to have much effect when I tried using it.
thanks for your help!
Post Situation:
Have you tried explicit (manually written) constraints instead? The constraint documentation shows how to write them. A large series of atom-pair constraints (say, holding the extant hydrogen bonds in place) ought to have the effect you want.
There ought to be an automatic way to do what you want but I don't know what it is. You could also try using the flag you tried, but passing flags to increase the weights on the constraint score terms (see the constraint documentation).
Do you see constraint score terms in the output anywhere? (Do they appear/disappear as you turn the flag on/off?) If you don't see them as part of the score function, then the flag probably has no effect rather than little effect.
thanks very much. this pretty much does what I want. Takes a bit of trial and error to adjust the strength of the restraints though.