Re: PBC

From: johan strumpfer (johanstr_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Jun 01 2011 - 11:03:04 CDT

HI Werner,

This indeed just an imaging issue. To re-wrap the output it is easiest
to use the PBCtools plugin in VMD. You can then wrap the resulting
output either by segment or by residue (see the documentation:
http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/plugins/pbctools/).

The cut-off that you are referring to I presume is the charmm CUTIM
parameter? If I remember correctly, this is used to set the maximum
distance for generating the pairlist. The equivalent parameter in namd
is pairlistdist. See
http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/namd/2.8/ug/node39.html for more info.

Cheers,
Johan

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On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 6:09 AM, Werner Crous <crous.werner_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear NAMD-users
>
> I have a problem with imaging in NAMD. I used a truncated octahedron within
> the NVT ensemble. What happened was that after 12ns the protein only
> partially moved out of the truncated octahedron, but my one substrate was
> imaged right to the other side of the box. This then looks as if the
> substrate moved out of the protein, but I assume it is just the imaging. The
> susbstrate is imaged differently to the protein. As a CHARMM user, I know
> that one can specify if you want the imaging to happen by segment or by
> residue, but in NAMD I am not aware of such options. How does imaging work
> in NAMD for a TOH and what is the cutoff for the minimum imaging convention?
>
> Thank you in anticipation.
>
> Best regards
> Werner
>
>
>
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