[gmx-users] change in secondary structure after npt equilibration

[Justin A. Lemkul]

bharat gupta wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I am doing a simulation of a 230 amino acid protein for 3ns ... and I 
> have completed the npt equilibration step .. After retrieving the 
> structure from npt step and viewing it in pymol, reveals that some 
> portion of the beta strand got changed to a loop but when I visualized 
> the same structure in VMD I found that nothing has happened to the 
> structure .. In order to confirm more ... I generated the SS profile 
> using dssp and I found that , the dssp shows E i.e. sheet for that 
> region .. So what shall i do next ... shall I continue with the 
> production step or not ??
> 

Visualization programs are not always reliable in what they show you, we've 
discussed that.  Methods like DSSP and STRIDE are far more trustworthy, and seem 
to indicate that your structure is fine.  What you should be much more concerned 
with at this point is whether or not your equilibration sufficiently converged 
all of the thermodynamic observables.

-Justin

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