I recently came across a paper (J. Phys. Chem. B 2005, 109, 10441-10448) in which the authors found that using implicit solvent with explicit ions you easily end up with all the ions cuddling up in clusters ... which is obviously an artefact.
That is, if you do use this combination you certainly need to carefully choose your parameters and system set-up, and run thorough tests before doing any production runs. ... my five cents mic Per Larsson wrote: Hi! The answer is that I do not now critical it is. I have seen some papers that seem to hint at it not being overly critical, but, again, life does not come at a net charge. You'd have to see for yourself in your system, given the observables that are important I suppose. Possibly we can implement this in the future, as there indeed seems to be some interest in it, but that is not a task I can deal with currently. /Per 10 mar 2011 kl. 10.52 skrev Yulian Gavrilov: > Thanks again! > Don't you know how to make a total charge = 0 in this case, if implicit salt >concentration is not implemented currently? Or it is not critically? > > > 2011/3/10 Per Larsson <per.larsson at sbc.su.se> > Hi! > > Yes, except that in point 2, I'm not sure about the effects of explicit ions > in >an implicit solvent. > > Do deal with that properly one should use an implicit salt concentration, but >that is not implemented currently. > > The choice of water-model with pdb2gmx is not important. You can choose > 'None' >here. -- gmx-users mailing list gmx-users@gromacs.org http://lists.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users Please search the archive at http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists/Search before posting! Please don't post (un)subscribe requests to the list. Use the www interface or send it to gmx-users-requ...@gromacs.org. Can't post? Read http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists