[gmx-users] Is the AMBER or CHARMM Force field running in GROMACS

[david.evans at ulsop.ac.uk]

Michel,

Thanks very much for posting this. Changing the mass of the oxygen in
my tip3p water
from 16.0000 to 15.9994, has enormously slowed the diffusion of the
DNA molecule in my system!
Gromacs appears now to be more consistent with Amber (see my postings
yesterday). I'm doing NVT simulations atm, so I haven't compared the
virial/pressure.
I can only speculate that the SETTLE algorithm is hugely sensitive to
the masses, but why this would be the case I've no idea. 

Thanks again

Dave

---- Message from Michel Cuendet <michel.cuendet at epfl.ch> at
2004-07-15 11:06:58 ------
>Hi,
> 
>You can use Amber ff in gromacs, but be careful with the water.
tip3p 
>water converted with ambconv give very strange results for the
pressure, 
>and can even induce protein tearing apart (see previous postings on
this 
>list). To cure this problem, you have to replace the tip3p masses by
the 
>spc masses in your topology. This strange sensitivity of gromacs to
the 
>water atom masses is still an unsolved problem...
>
>Cheers,
>
>Michel
>
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