[gmx-users] Monte Carlo with Gromacs and implicit solvent

[Gianluca Interlandi]

Hi!

I would like to use gromacs to perform Monte Carlo simulations in implicit 
solvent of a protein near a surface. The protein is treated as a rigid 
body whereas the surface is fix.

I see that there are plans to code MC into gromacs:

http://www.gromacs.org/Developer_Zone/Programming_Guide/Monte_Carlo

Is there a preliminary version?

If not, I wonder whether anybody has tried to do MC with gromacs using IMD 
and MDDriver:

http://www.baaden.ibpc.fr/projects/mddriver/

Besides this. Is there an easy way to obtain the force field energy of a 
system using gromacs? Would I have to run a 0-steps MD and read out the 
energy? I know that this would have a big overhead in a MC simulation, but 
it might be worth trying.

Thanks,

      Gianluca

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Postdoc at the Department of Bioengineering
at the University of Washington, Seattle WA U.S.A.
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