[gmx-users] Run NVT equilibrium

[Justin Lemkul]

On 5/23/15 10:40 AM, Vy Phan wrote:
> Dear all,
> I wonder why , on some tutorial, running NVT equilibrium we need only the
> em.gro (the final coordinate of energy minimization step) . why do we not
> need em.edr ?
>

Because there's no information in the .edr file that is needed to start NVT 
after EM.  You only need the minimized coordinates at that point.

-Justin

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