[gmx-users] problem with undistribution of water

[Maik Goette]

That "problem" is called periodic boundaries.
Try inserting a second bilayer to get, at least on one axis, a water 
layer between the two lipid layers, if you want to prevent PBC for a 
part of the waters.

Maik Goette, Dipl. Biol.
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sudheer babu wrote:
> Thanks Mr .Justin for your response,
> I am describing answers for  your questions,
> 1.My box size is 6.0nm in xyz dimensions.
> 2.The forcefield  I am using "ffgmx.itp" for membrane which I downloaded 
> from Pieter Tieleman webiste and deprecated FF for protein.
> 3 .I inserted protein into membrane by using genbox command.
> 4. I used force constant 10000 on protein.
>   There is no leaking of membrane, the stucture is fine till EM, but in 
> PR the water molecules are moving from one side of the bilyaer to the 
> other side. No water mol between lipid bilyer hydrophobic region. Ok I 
> tell you in clear way, Assume on membrane  each side 200 water molecules 
> are there but after equilabration 30 to 50 water molecules are reaching 
> other side , so one side its appearing  more  rather than other side.  
> But it looks in cubic form how appears in EM but only increasing water 
> molecules on other side. Popc and protein are fine. Will it cause any 
> problem later when I run further simulation by taking this output file.I 
> hope you got my problem.
> Thanks in advance.
> 
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