On Mon, Mar 07, 2011, Andrew Jewett wrote:
> If the amber community is considering
> adding new features to AMBER, then please consider the following:
>
> i) The ability for a covalent bond to cross the periodic box boundary.
This is likely to happen.
> ii) The ability to allow pressure rescaling in only the Z direction.
> (while preventing rescaling in the XY directions, or visa versa).
This sounds almost like a two-line change to the code -- have you considered
trying it out?
> a) Harmonic restraint anchor points are not fixed during NPT simulations,
> but are scaled. It would be useful to make this optional
> (both for belly and harmonic restraints).
See comment above.
> b) Arguably, constraints cause the virial to be calculated incorrectly.
> This can force the box to expand to a huge size.
What kind of "constraints" are you using? Do you understand what is going on,
e.g. why there is a bubble only on one side of the central slab?
...regards...dac
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