[gmx-users] Regarding minimum protein-edge distance and dispersion correction for Charmm27 (Charmm22/CMAP) or Charmm36 FF

[Justin Lemkul]

On 9/28/16 5:45 AM, Rakesh Ramachandran wrote:
> Dear Gromacs users,
>
>      I am using Charmm36 FF with Gromacs 5.1 GPU version for running my
> protein simulations. With respect to the minimum protein-edge distance for
> Charmm FF I see in the literature that it should be greater than 1.2nm, as
> rcoulomb value is 1.2nm and also for proper screening of electrostatic
> interactions between copies of the protein across periodic boundaries.
>
>     1) My question is can a minimum protein-edge distance of 1.0nm be used
> in the protein MD simulations (I see this value in a lot of publications)
> and has anyone encountered problems in electrostatic energy values for the
> Charmm FF because of using 1.0nm cutoff.
>

I would consider a 1.0-nm solute-box distance a bare minimum.  It will satisfy 
the minimum image convention unless the box size changes drastically.

>     2) Moreover should dispersion correction be enabled by setting DispCorr
> value to Yes for Charmm FF for protein MD simulations.
>

http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/Terminology/Force_Fields/CHARMM

>     3) Which is the current release which would be ideal to use with Charmm
> FF - Gromacs 5.1.4 or Gromacs 2016 ?
>

Use of the force field is not version-dependent.

-Justin

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