Sounds dangerous to me. Here's a possible methods section from your paper:

"we obtained a popc bilayer somewhere on the internet. Unfortunately, this 
structure did not match our topology file. Nevertheless, it has the same number 
of atoms and so we assumed that the difference was simply a matter of 
reordering ..." (not too appealing I think).

Peter's advice was good and I recommend avoiding a reordering based on an 
assumption that it will be correct. Using the method that Peter outlined, there 
will be some issues with equilibration at the new periodic boundary, but 100 ns 
of MD simulation should take care of that just fine (note that the Tieleman 128 
lipid file is pretty old and, computers being slower then, I imagine that it 
was equilibrated with fewer than 100 ns itself).

Chris.


On 2012-05-28 08:03, James Starlight wrote:
> Peter,
>
> Thanks for advise.
>
> I've found already pre-equilibrated POPC bilayers with 200 lipids.
> I've examined that lipids and found that they are very similar to the
> berger's lipids (it consists of equal nymber of atoms ) but the atom
> order in each lipid is slightly different than in Tieleman's popc.itp
> file so during processing of that lipids I've got error of
> non-matching atoms. Is there any trivial way to make new popc.itp
> based on existing gro file with correct atom order ?
>
>
> James
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