[gmx-users] Simulations in NVE ensemble with CHARMM36

[Justin Lemkul]

On 5/7/14, 9:05 AM, ABEL Stephane 175950 wrote:
> Dear GMX-users
>
> I have done a 90 ns long simulation of a heterogeneous  system (SPCE water, phospholipids and a hydrophobic solvent) in NPT ensemble (298 K at 1 bar) with GROMACS4.6.5. to compute related dynamical properties, I would like to continue this simulation in NVE. But I am puzzled to choose the mdp parameters to have a good energy conservation. Indeed, I have checked the gromacs 2004 JCTC or the following and follow the advices given in the following threads
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> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.gromacs.user/42686
> https://www.mail-archive.com/gmx-users@gromacs.org/msg60393.html
>
> But I always obtain for my system a large drift and the temp decreases significantly (20 K) after few dozens of ps (the initial temp was around 297.3 K). For this simulation I used the double precision of gromacs with a timestep of 1 fs.
>

Can you provide a full .mdp file so we can look at all your settings?  Are these 
drifts during NPT or NVE?

> More, since I have never used the potential-modifier features, so I not sure how to setup  the correct parameters in the context of CHARMM simulations.
>

With the caveat that I have NOT thoroughly tested the following, my 
understanding of the new Verlet options indicates that these settings should 
perform pretty well using CHARMM36:

cutoff-scheme = Verlet
rlist = 1.2
vdwtype = cutoff
vdw-modifier = Potential-switch
rvdw = 1.2
rvdw-switch = 1.0
coulombtype = PME
rcoulomb = 1.2

Again, barely tested on my part, and never tested for NVE.

-Justin

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