AMBER Archive (2002)

Subject: Re: building general solvent boxes with leap

From: Elsa de Sousa Henriques (eshenriq_at_fc.up.pt)
Date: Thu Jul 18 2002 - 22:41:25 CDT


On Thu, Jul 18, 2002, Xavier Deupi wrote:

> ...
> I've read that WATBOX216 was equilibrated through Monte-Carlo
> simulations, but does anybody know why it contains 216 molecules,
> and not 125, or 343 or 512? I mean, any idea about the importance
> of the size of this model box?
> ...

I believe it has something to do with a couple of thousand particles
being kind of a reasonable lower limit for the water thermodynamic
properties of interest to be well reproduced, and, of course, it is
practical to have a cubic (6^3) number.

Elsa
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