[gmx-users] pressure coupling for lipid bilayer

[Anton Feenstra]

Xavier Periole wrote:
> 
> Using a surface tension is often necessary to reproduce the surface area
> (per lipid) determine experimentally for most (if not all) of the known
> lipid bilayers.

Excuse me for maybe stating the obvious (am I missing the point?) but
shouldn't the lipid forcefield parameters be optimized to reproduce
the proper surface area per lipid? It seems terribly ad-hoc to me to
correct a 'faulty' model in this way.


-- 
Groetjes,

Anton
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