Re: [AMBER] Ethanol as solvent

From: <amin.imtech.res.in>
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:46:25 +0530 (IST)

Hi. Is there a problem in making the complete box (protein + ethanol + water)
with packmol and then setting the PBC.
Amin.

> Ok This I can test. But I dought whether this will make the correct size of
> box since I am using 3 ethanol molecules for each 10000 water molecules.
>
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 12:14 AM, Aron Broom <broomsday.gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> no, that's not what I'm saying. If you solvate like so:
>>
>> "solvateBox yourUnit TIP3PBOX 0.0 1.0"
>>
>> It will make a box where the closest distance between a water and your
>> protein or ethanol is 1.0 angstroms, and where there is a 0.0 angstrom
>> distance from these to the edge of the periodic box. If your ethanols
>> already loosely define the box, then that will be good, no?
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 1:07 AM, Chinthaka Ratnaweera <cnr88.msstate.edu
>> >wrote:
>>
>> > Thanks, But I think I need the periodic boundary conditions for the
>> > simulation. Just adding ethanols will not create periodic box.
>> >
>> > On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 11:58 PM, Aron Broom <broomsday.gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > > but if the ethanols are already making up roughly the box size you
>> want,
>> > > can't you just give no boundary, or close to it?
>> > >
>> > > On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 12:14 AM, Chinthaka Ratnaweera <
>> > cnr88.msstate.edu
>> > > >wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > I have to use certain concentration of ethanol/water mixture for my
>> > > protein
>> > > > model. I couldn't find ethanol solvatebox in amber. so I randomly
>> added
>> > > > desired number of ethanol molecules to a given box size (using
>> > packmol).
>> > > > But now the problem is when I add water solvatebox (tip3p), ethanols
>> > also
>> > > > consider as a part of the solute and count the distance for
>> boundaries
>> > > from
>> > > > ethanol molecules making the box size much larger which I do not
>> want.
>> > > > Appreciate if any one can guide me to solve this problem. Thank you.
>> > > >
>> > > > Chinthaka
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