Re: [gmx-users] Single long simulation versus multiple short

2011-07-27 Thread Thomas Evangelidis
Hi Tom, 1 ns sounds far too small to explore the various conformational states of a protein of that size, and even worse if you expect the ligand to find it lowest-energy conformation/position (unless you have placed it where it binds). Perhaps you should consider enhanced sampling techniques like

Re: [gmx-users] Single long simulation versus multiple short

2011-07-26 Thread Tom Dupree
Greetings all, I am quite interested in this discussion, and wondered if some people would like to add how they would assess the length their MD simulations. I am currently simulating HIV-1 RT for 1 ns and seem to have very flat energy profiles for almost anything (energy wise) I care to measure

Re: [gmx-users] Single long simulation versus multiple short ones

2011-07-25 Thread Tsjerk Wassenaar
Hey Widya, In general, no, 15*2ns is not equal to 1*30ns. The reason for this lies in correlation and relaxation times. 15 simulations of 2ns give good statistics on relaxation and, if the system is equilibrated already, on short-term processes. A single simulation of 30 ns may relax to equilibriu

Re: [gmx-users] Single long simulation versus multiple short ones

2011-07-25 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
Widya Desmarani wrote: Dear gromacs user, I have been trying to look for an answer for my following question from our forum but still couldn't manage to find one. Probably it is trivial but I am not sure. Instead of running a single relatively long simulation (say for about 30 ns), is it

[gmx-users] Single long simulation versus multiple short ones

2011-07-25 Thread Widya Desmarani
Dear gromacs user, I have been trying to look for an answer for my following question from our forum but still couldn't manage to find one. Probably it is trivial but I am not sure. Instead of running a single relatively long simulation (say for about 30 ns), is it acceptable if we simulate multi