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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Mon May 15 2006 - 12:33:29 CDT

Hi,
  I hadn't heard about this previously, I'll have to have a look
and see what's going on there. Not much has changed with that plugin
since Ilya originally wrote it, so hopefully this is easy to fix.

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 11:47:11AM -0700, Ting Wang wrote:
>
> Dear VMD users,
>
> It seems there is a bug in the Membrane Plugin.
>
> When the membrane size is larger than 50A x 50A, the commond "membrane -l
> popc ..." will generate lipid molecules with serious clash. Some atom-atom
> distances are even smaller than 0.2A.Energy minimization can not get over
> it, actually minimiztion can not run.
>
> Did anybody else notice this? Can this bug be fixed?
>
> Thank you very much!
>
> Ting 

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