Emanuel Peter wrote:
Dear Gromacs users,
I have read about an equilibration procedure for proteins.
It has the following sequence:
- cool down to 20 K an let this run for about 1 ps.
- heat the system up with 10 K every 500 steps until you get 300 K.
- do a run for 4 ps at 300 K.
Is this kind of equilibration really necessary ?
At the moment I do not know for what reason one should equilibrate in
this way.
IMHO, it's unnecessary. Warming up a system slowly is not unreasonable, but
I've always done straight equilibration at the desired temperature and/or
pressure and achieved reasonable results.
One told me that he removed stepwisely constraints while equilibrating.
Could anyone tell me why one should equilibrate with this scheme ?
Constraints or restraints? These are separate concepts in Gromacs. Removing
constraints seems pointless, unless you want to start using a smaller timestep!
Slowly removing restraints (like position restraints) might be necessary for a
very sensitive system, but for a standard protein in water, it's probably excessive.
-Justin
Thanks in advance.
Emanuel
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