Hi Francois,
A possible reason why the Na+ ions added by the addion command do not
"follow rigouroulsy the phosphate backbone" may be due to the nature of
your model. For a "regular-backbone nucleic acids" you may indeed see
such behavior. However, if your oligo model is not regular, you should
expect to see deviations. Indeed, when I solvated a RNA-protein complex,
the Na+ ions did not rigorously follow the backbone.
Hope this helps.
Rhonda
Rhonda A. Torres
The Scripps Research Institute
Department of Molecular Biology
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La Jolla, CA 92037
email: torres.scripps.edu
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