On Thu, Aug 14, 2003, Venkata S Koppuravuri wrote:
> 
> I am trying to minimize a protien structure on one of our clusters. the
> simulation  went fine, but when i checked the min.out file  i got weird
> values for some of the parameters. below is a part of min.out file
> 
> ----------------------------------
>  NSTEP    ENERGY   RMS     GMAX         NAME   NUMBER
>    1      -nan    -nan    2.9855E+15     HB     224
> 
>  BOND = 16393.1733 ANGLE = 623.3094 DIHED = 463.8889
>  VDWAALS = -nan EEL = -nan HBOND = 0.0000
>  1-4 VDW = 497.7016 1-4 EEL = 3080.5624 RESTRAINT = 0.0000
> 
"nan" means "not a number".  You almost certainly have two atoms on top
of each other in your initial structure.  You need to fix this before
the minimization (or anything else) can proceed.
...dac
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