[gmx-users] Generate many random configurations

[Justin Lemkul]

On 3/6/14, 9:50 AM, rankinb wrote:
> Thanks for your reply and helpful suggestions Justin.  I have successfully
> implemented the concatenation command (after generating the desired number
> of configurations).  There is another detail with which I am having trouble.
> So, I actually want to generate configurations in which it is possible for
> atoms to overlap, as in an ideal gas.  To do that, I set vdwd to 0.01 nm and
> used atom names that are not contained in the vdwradii.dat file so that vdwd
> will actually be used.  (Ideally, I want to use vdwd=0, but I receive the
> error, "One of the box vectors has become shorter than twice the cut-off
> length or box_yy-|box_zy| or box_zz has become smaller than the cut-off.").
> Regardless, even when vdwd=0.01, the g(r) still equals 0 at distances <= 0.1
> nm.  Do you have any ideas why this is the case?  I thought that the g(r)
> would be equal to zero at distances <= 0.01 nm.
>

Are you calculating the g(r) for a single configuration, or over a trajectory?

-Justin

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