[gmx-users] Implicit "solvation" at air-water interface

[Justin Lemkul]

On 1/10/14, 12:37 PM, Michael Daily wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have been conducting simulations of peptoids (a cousin of peptides) in
> implicit solvent in gromacs, which in conjunction with REMD has been very
> useful for sampling the conformational distribution.
>
> Since some of the peptoids are amphiphilic, I'm also interested in
> simulating them implicitly at an air/water or (nonpolar solvent)/water
> interface.  That is, I'd like to have a box split into high- and
> low-dielectric regions.  Does this functionality exist in gromacs or is it
> planning to be developed?
>

No, and probably not.  A distance-dependent dielectric may have been mentioned 
once or twice across the list, but I don't know that anyone's working on it. 
Feature requests can be filed on Redmine, but unless a core developer has a 
strong desire to do it, it's up to the community to contribute it.

-Justin

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