RE: AMBER: Leap handling crystallographic waters

From: Furse, Kristina Elisabet <kristina.e.furse.vanderbilt.edu>
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 13:18:34 -0600

I guess I was thinking of the "fast water routines"--is that no longer
operational in amber8?


Quoting Ross Walker <ross.rosswalker.co.uk>:

> Note, in Amber 8 there is no difference between solute and solvent so it
> will make no difference what the crystallographic waters are defined as. The
> concept of separate solute and solvent dates back to the days when there
> were separate thermostats for the two regions.
>
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> Ross
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> > From: owner-amber.scripps.edu
> > [mailto:owner-amber.scripps.edu] On Behalf Of Furse, Kristina Elisabet
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 09:14
> > To: amber.scripps.edu
> > Subject: Re: AMBER: Leap handling crystallographic waters
> >
> > If you want the crystallographic waters to be considered
> > solute and not solvent
> > for the actual simulation, I think you'll have to rename
> > them--define a new
> > residue with a name sander does not recognize as solvent. If
> > you don't rename
> > them, they'll get lumped in with the solvent leap adds.
> >
> > Kristina
> >
> > Quoting Andy Purkiss <a.purkiss.mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk>:
> >
> > > solvateBox will leave the crystallographic water molecules
> > in place and
> > > solvate around then. Just load in the pdb file complete with the
> > > crystallographic waters. Solvatebox applies to the unit you are
> > > solvating and it doesn't care whether it is protein or
> > water or both.
> > >
> > > On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 14:44 +0100, Vlad Cojocaru wrote:
> > > > Dear Amber users,
> > > > I have a question which might sound trivial but since
> > I am using
> > > > crystallograohic waters in the simulation for the first time, I am
> > > > wondering how does solvateBox or solvateOct in Leap handle the
> > > > crystallographic waters.
> > > > I intend to keep all the crystallographic waters in
> > my simulations
> > > > so I would like to tell Leap that those waters are part of the
> > > > "solute"...
> > > >
> > > > Best
> > > > vlad
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