[gmx-users] Compare two bilayers made from two methods

[Justin Lemkul]

On 2/20/13 4:09 AM, Kieu Thu Nguyen wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I do not know whether there is any difference between a big bilayer and the
> other bilayer made from merging two small bilayers made before.
>
> I make a bilayer from two methods:
>
> (1) merging two small bilayers (made before) by the below command
>
> genconf -f bilayer_small.gro -trj bilayer_small.xtc -nbox 2 1 1 -o
> bilayer_double.gro
>
> (2) make a big bilayer directly
>

With suitable equilibration (tens or hundreds of ns), the starting configuration 
of the membrane is largely irrelevant.

-Justin

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