[gmx-users] TIP4P water shrinks during energy minimization

Valentin Gogonea v.gogonea at csuohio.edu
Sun Jun 5 01:38:52 CEST 2005


Thank you David for your suggestion. It worked.

Valentin

On Jun 4, 2005, at 2:44 PM, David wrote:

> On Sat, 2005-06-04 at 14:20 -0400, Valentin Gogonea wrote:
>> Dear GMX Users:
>>
>> I am trying to perform energy minimization on a box of TIP4P water  
>> with
>> a small organic molecule using OPLS force field. When I use the option
>> -DFLEXIBLE the water seems to shrink and I get high forces. I used  
>> both
>> "steep" and "l-bfgs" minimizers and got the same behavior. With "cg"
>> minimizer the optimization crashes giving  "nan" for coordinates.
>>
>> I may do something wrong here and I wonder if any of you experienced
>> this.
> check that the atoms are all excluded from the dummy when not using
> constraints/settle. THis has been fixed in CVS.
>
>>
>> I included here the mdp file and a picture of the "optimized" box.
>>
>> Thank you for your help.
>>
>> Valentin
>>
>>
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