Re: Cylindrical harmonic BC and constraintScaling

From: Elsa Fernanda de Sousa Henriques (ehenriques_at_qui.uc.pt)
Date: Mon Apr 20 2009 - 08:25:20 CDT

Hi again,

Please ignore my previous mail; already figured out what went wrong.
Sorry for the inconvenience,

Elsa

On Mon, April 20, 2009 12:22 pm, Elsa Fernanda de Sousa Henriques wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to simulate a system using both cylindrical harmonic BC to
> confine the solvent and some harmonic restraints on my protein's backbone
> which I try to loosen up along the simulation using constraintScaling till
> the backbone constraints come to zero.
>
> My question is, does the constraintScaling parameter affect also the
> cylindricalBCk# ? (looks like, for when my constraintScaling = 0.0 the
> BOUNDARY energy drops to zero ... and I end up with a couple of waters
> 'vaporizing'). If so, is there a way around it (besides modifying the
> consKFile as the simulation progresses)?
>
> Any feedback will be greatly appreciated, tnx
>
> Elsa

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