[gmx-users] polymer NVT

[David van der Spoel]

On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, javier wrote:

>Dear Gromacssss
>
> My system consist of 1 polymer chain, and I need to do NVT simulations, so
>I need to fix the box size according to  my polymer density.
> But I really do not understand editconf?
>
>My edit conf is: ediconf -bt cubic -f file.gro -o out.gro -d 0.5 -center
>
>But in this way I do not get the right density, so I have tried:
>
>
>ediconf -bt cubic -f file.gro -o out.gro -d 0.5 -density 1010
>
>but the resulting  box vector lengths are a=4 b=7 and c=0.3.  Therefore I
>only can use very small cutoffs due to the small c value.
>
>And my polymer chain does not look like a Gaussian chain, and it is outside
>of the cell.
>
>So, do you have some idea?

make a box of 7 7 7 that fits the chain
do a simulation with pressure coupling to 100 bar and watch the box 
contract. then do sim with pressure 1 bar and check the final density. If 
it is not right check your force field.

you need pbc = full for this kind of simulation (and constraint algorihtm 
LINCS with CVS code or no constraints with 3.2.1).

>
>. 
>
>THANK YOU!!!!
>
>Javier 
>
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David.
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