Thank you Anselm and Jason. I'm going to check Jason suggestion as I'm 
 not very sure about the consequences of fixing an atom coordinates.
 Best regards,
 Fernando
 On Wed, 8 Aug 2012 08:09:53 -0400, Jason Swails wrote:
> IMO, a better solution would be to use cpptraj and the "autoimage" 
> function
> (make sure you have up to AmberTools bugfix.19 applied -- you can 
> check
> this via $AMBERHOME/patch_amber.py --patch-level) on the troublesome
> restart file.  This will move your protein back to the center of the 
> box
> and re-image your solvent and other small molecules around it.
>
> It should also keep velocities intact, so you should be able to 
> continue MD
> from there without any issues.
>
> HTH,
> Jason
>
> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 7:27 AM, Anselm Horn <
> Anselm.Horn.biochem.uni-erlangen.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi Fernando,
>>
>> maybe fixing one of the respective atoms to its position with 
>> harmonical
>> restraints would be an option. With this you'd prevent your 
>> molecule, or
>> at least the interesting part, from leaving your box.
>>
>> However, I've never done this and am not sure whether this 
>> introduces
>> too much perturbation on your system.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Anselm
>>
>> Bioinformatik
>> Institut für Biochemie
>> Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
>> Germany
>>
>> Am 08.08.2012 12:35, schrieb Fernando Martín García:
>> >   But, if I understood well, iwrap doesn't resolve the high 
>> diffusion of
>> >   the protein in the box (and I proved with iwrap=1 too). So, the 
>> only
>> >   solution is to enlarge the box size? Is there any other 
>> possibility?
>> >
>> >   Thanks,
>> >
>> >   Fernando
>> >
>> >   On Wed,  8 Aug 2012 12:13:51 +0200, Jérôme Golebiowski wrote:
>> >> If you are performing an umbrella sampling and this extends your
>> >> molecule to
>> >> larger value than your box size, you should enlarge your box.
>> >> Otherwise, maybe just setting iwrap to 1 will help keeping the
>> >> protein close to
>> >> the box center.
>> >> HTH.
>> >> Best,
>> >> Jerome
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Selon Fernando MartÃn GarcÃa <fmgarcia.cbm.uam.es>:
>> >>
>> >>>   Dear Amber users,
>> >>>
>> >>>   I have a "technical" problem with a distance restraint. I'm 
>> working
>> >>>   with a protein with a 12 angs. TIP3 box. The simulation time 
>> is 30
>> >>> ns.
>> >>>   After 20 ns, a small part of the protein is out of the box. 
>> The
>> >>> problem
>> >>>   is that one of the residues out of the box has a restrain with 
>> one
>> >>>   residue in the part of the protein inside the water box, so 
>> the
>> >>> value
>> >>>   changes, what it causes a high restraint value. Is there any
>> >>> solution
>> >>>   for this?
>> >>>
>> >>>   Thanks
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