[gmx-users] problem with npt

Eric Jakobsson jake at ncsa.uiuc.edu
Mon Dec 17 01:46:34 CET 2007


In our experience the leaflets of a bilayer have a tendency to 
separate if the cutoff on the van der Waals force is too short.  We 
always use 18-20 angstroms for that.

At 05:35 AM 12/16/2007, you wrote:
>pragya chohan wrote:
>>i started with the lipid coordinates from peter tieleman and 
>>removed the water. then i added water by genbox.
>>I did energy minimization followed by position restrain, which I 
>>removed gradually. all of it was done under npt. I carried out npt 
>>for 250 ps. During the next 250 ps npt run the bilayers separated and deformed.
>
>Usually NVT to get the temperature right before relaxing to NPT to 
>let the density equilibrate can be good idea. Look at how much your 
>box changed size during your NPT to see if this effect is causing problems.
>
>Mark
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