Hey James, > I've found the same task of MSU's students :) They simulate membrane > formation without NPT stage ( after NVT they run production MD). From they > reports I've found that simplest membrane system could be formed within > 10-30 Ns. But what about try to make such simulation in vacuum at first > without any water ? Might the bilayer been formed in such conditions?
Likely, but not in the way you might expect. I'd say it would end up inside out as the heads are more vacuphobic than the tails :) Cheers, Tsjerk -- Tsjerk A. Wassenaar, Ph.D. post-doctoral researcher Molecular Dynamics Group * Groningen Institute for Biomolecular Research and Biotechnology * Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials University of Groningen The Netherlands -- 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
