AMBER Archive (2005)

Subject: Re: AMBER: size of solventbox

From: Brent Krueger (kruegerb_at_hope.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 23 2005 - 14:54:35 CST


On Feb 23, 2005, at 12:22 AM, Ross Walker wrote:

>
> This will definitely cause artifacts in your simulation. But it is
> probably
> quite hard to quantify. Perhaps some can comment further. There may be
> some
> work published that tries to quantify the effects of the size of the
> explicit solvent box but I don't know. Note for PME calculations your
> cutoff
> should be about 8A and this needs to be less than half your smallest
> box
> diameter. Hence the smallest axis of your box needs to be larger than
> 16
> angstroms.
>

The McCammon group did a little work on the issue of artifacts caused
by box size in PME calculations. J Phys Chem B (2000) 104 p.3668-3675.

Probably there is more recent work as well, but not that I'm aware of.

Cheers,
Brent

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Hope College
Department of Chemistry
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