[gmx-users] vdwd option on genbox: Exactly what does it do?

[David van der Spoel]

David Mobley wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> genbox has a -vdwd option which specifies "default vdwaals distance". 
> The documentation isn't too clear about this; does it override what 
> genbox usually uses? Or is it only used for molecules which have no vdW 
> parameters or some such?
Second.

> 
> For anyone who cares: I'm trying to keep water somewhat further away 
> from the protein when solvating than is typical, and I'm trying to 
> figure out whether using -vdwd is a way to do this, or whether I'll have 
> to make a script to delete all of the waters within my desired cutoff 
> distance from the protein.
You want to copy the vdwradii.dat file to your working directory and 
edit that.
> 
> Thanks,
> David
> 
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