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Hello Lizhe--

> I have one question about merging two Xplor-NIH scrpts.
> 
> I have two scripts, script A for energy minimization and script B for MD. 
> 
> So the outcome will be got in this way:
> 
> script A-------->script B-----------> outcome PDB
> 
> Then I try to merge them together, adding B at the end of A ( simply copy and
> paste, deleting some overlapping things ).  Outcome PDB will be got directly
> from a merged script:
> 
> merged script----------->outcome PDB
> 
> However, this PDB is a little different from the previous outcome PDB ( RMSD
> between them is not zero ).  So is this quite normal, or is there sth wrong 
> with
> the merging? BTW, the random seeds used in MD of are identical.
> 

Between scripts A and B you are storing coordinate information in a PDB
file. This file stores the coordinates with a precision much smaller
than that in computer memory- when the structure is loaded back in, the
extra digits in memory are effectively set to zero, so that you get a
small (or large!) difference in the result.

best regards--
Charles
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