Because I randomly chose to do this.
The whole purpose of minimization here is to relax the structure away from a
high energy minimum, not to actually optimize the structure - as such the
number of steps is largely irrelevant as long as it is 'enough' to relax any
large strains.
Ross
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> Of teresa.ierano.unina.it
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> Subject: AMBER: Minimization methods
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> Hi all,
> I would like to know why in solvent minimization reported in Amber
> tutorials the same number of steps are used for the steepest descent
> and conjugate gradient algorithms.
> Thank you for your reply,
> Best regards.
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