[gmx-users] Implicit and Explicit solvation

[Syed Azeem]

Thanks Tyugashev for your response.

It was a reviewer suggestion to run our protein-peptide docked complex
in a continuum solvent and compute their free energies of association.
After this, I came across MMPBSA
and its GROMACS tool g_mmpbsa.

Is this not based on Implicit solvation? How can I perform it to
validate my docking?

Thanks in advance

Azeem

>From: Timofey Tyugashev <tyugashev at niboch.nsc.ru>
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>Implicit solvation treats solvent as a continuous medium (a kind of
>modifier for , while explicit one treats it as a set of explicit
>(surprise!) particles. I guess you can start reading from relevant
>Wikipedia articles.
>Implicit is way faster to compute, the system itself also settles far
>quicker, but it's considered more inaccurate and harder to optimize for
>GPU. It's also possible to have a hybrid approach, when the whole system
>is solvated implicitly, but select solvent molecules are explicitly
>included in the model.
>
>In GROMACS implicit solvent is depreciated, so you should either use
>explicit solvent, or pick a different MD engine if you want implicit.
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> Hi all,
>
> What's the difference between Implicit and Explicit solvation?
> Is there any difference in setting up the system for simulation?
> Which is computationally effiecient?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Azeem