Hi Justin, 

I am writing in this correspondence, because I also had the same query once 
that secondary structure changes after equilibration, and you are right that 
visualisation programs are not always reliable.
You also mentioned this time that we should check wether equilibration 
sufficiently converged all of the thermodynamic observables. It will be very 
kind of you if you can throw some light in this regard that how these 
observables should be checked.

Thanks and Regards

-- 
Sonali Dhindwal

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

--- On Fri, 28/1/11, Justin A. Lemkul <jalem...@vt.edu> wrote:

From: Justin A. Lemkul <jalem...@vt.edu>
Subject: Re: [gmx-users] change in secondary structure after npt equilibration
To: "Discussion list for GROMACS users" <gmx-users@gromacs.org>
Date: Friday, 28 January, 2011, 5:53 PM



bharat gupta wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I am doing a simulation of a 230 amino acid protein for 3ns ... and I have 
> completed the npt equilibration step .. After retrieving the structure from 
> npt step and viewing it in pymol, reveals that some portion of the beta 
> strand got changed to a loop but when I visualized the same structure in VMD 
> I found that nothing has happened to the structure .. In order to confirm 
> more ... I generated the SS profile using dssp and I found that , the dssp 
> shows E i.e. sheet for that region .. So what shall i do next ... shall I 
> continue with the production step or not ??
> 

Visualization programs are not always reliable in what they show you, we've 
discussed that.  Methods like DSSP and STRIDE are far more trustworthy, and 
seem to indicate that your structure is fine.  What you should be much more 
concerned with at this point is whether or not your equilibration sufficiently 
converged all of the thermodynamic observables.

-Justin

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Department of Biochemistry
Virginia Tech
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