On 9/04/2012 7:27 PM, James Starlight wrote:
Mark,
If you make your layer boundaries perpendicular to some axis then
you can use position restraints on water oxygens that have
non-zero force constants only with respect to that axis. Then
relax the water position restraints before any others.
Yes, I've thought about this to apply posres onto selected coordinates
to allow waters move only laterally relavitely protein-membrane-like
system. But this prevent to move water into the receptor interious as
well so it's not very good aproach.
Assuming you're raising your temperature during equilibration and then
running at high temperature, then you don't want water moving into the
receptor interior during equilibration for the same reason you didn't
want water moving into the CCl4. And you're going to run further
equilibration after taking off all the restraints anyway, right? And if
water moves into the receptor interior, then it probably does that under
high-temperature equilibrium conditions...
Also I've thought about vary of the ref_t oprions wich I've defined
separatelly for protein_membrane layer and for water_ions. As I've
told I want to increase confoprmation sampling of my protein by means
of gradually temperature increasing. Could I rise only ref_t for the
protein_ccl4 layer with the apllied posres on the protetn (backbone
atoms) and ccl4 ( C atoms) during nvt equilibration while not changing
ref_t for water and ions ? Will my system be some unphysicall in that
case ? Or as the alternative way could I decrease ref_t for the
water_ions layer in the end of nvt equilibration to allow water to
move out from the Ccl4 layer?
Please check your spelling. Attention to detail is very important in
doing such simulations, and you don't want to create the impression your
simulation settings might look similar to the above :-) On point, the
reference temperature has little to do with whether phases diffuse into
(or out of) each other, and lots to do with what ensemble you might be
sampling. The actual temperature controls the rate of such diffusion, of
course, but if the non-bonded interactions allow for intermixing, then
you'll get some degree of that regardless of any other setting. You'd be
well advised to check that your CCl4-water boundary behaves acceptably
before you invest in the protein simulation...
Mark
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