[gmx-users] Higher that usual salt bridge occupancies in Amber99sb*-ildn forcefield despite adding nonbonded corrections

[Justin Lemkul]

On 4/17/17 6:09 AM, Priyesh Mohanty wrote:
> I've also tried increasing the sigma to higher values beyond 0.325 which should in principle considerably weaken salt bridges but there appears to be no decrease in salt bridge occupancy despite the increase in sigma. It is as though mdrun is not reading the nonbonded_param addition correctly.
>

mdrun doesn't read these files at all; grompp does when building your .tpr.  So 
if you're making adjustments to ffnonbonded.itp after writing a .tpr file, there 
will be no effect on the simulation because you haven't actually changed the 
physical model.  Are you correctly re-creating the .tpr file each time?

-Justin

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