%0 Journal Article %T MKTOP: a program for automatic construction of molecular topologies %A Ribeiro %A Andr¨¦ A. S. T. %A Horta %A Bruno A. C. %A Alencastro %A Ricardo B. de %J Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society %D 2008 %I Sociedade Brasileira de Qu¨ªmica, SBQ %R 10.1590/S0103-50532008000700031 %X molecular mechanics methods are widely-used for simulations of biomolecules. a molecular topology file containing all atom types, which depend on the chemical environment, must be constructed. mktop is a free-software capable of automatic atom type recognition and construction of molecular topologies for gromacs, being a useful tool for its users. %K molecular mechanics %K atom-type recognition %K molecular topology %K gromacs %K opls. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0103-50532008000700031&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en