On Thu, Nov 12, 2009, balaji nagarajan wrote:
>
> I have followed the tutorial given for Oxytocin peptide.
Can you give an exact pointer to this tutorial? It sounds old(?), and may
need to be updated.
>
> I have minimized the structure and when I tried to do the
> equillibration i had the problem saying error message "Bad atom type Ip"
This is rather weird, to have such a difference between minimization and MD.
"IP" is an old name for a solvated sodium ion.
> or it is not advaisable to add Sodium for neutralizing the DNA
Generally, there is no need to neutralize DNA when running GB simulations.
Almost all published simulations do not have explicit counterions. A few
groups are exploring adding counterions to GB, but that is an advanced
research topic, requiring lots of thought and testing.
...dac
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