[gmx-users] global minimum

[Erik Marklund]

leila karami skrev:
> Hi
>  
> after energy minimization step, how can be understand that obtained 
> structure is in global or local minimum?
>  
>
> Any help will highly appreciated!
>
You can't. You can be rather certain that it's in a minimum of some 
sort, but not whether it's a local or global one. On the other hand, 
it's not necessarily so, in general, that you want it to be in the 
global energy minimum. A local minimum close to an experimentally 
determined structure makes much more sense as a starting point in many 
cases.

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