Dear Wojciech,
I guess AddIons (or Addions2) does not take into account PBC (or the box geometry) just the electrostatic potential to place ions, that is way some of the ions may be set "out of the box", which is bad as they may generate clashes though the box images. In addition, those are extremely slow methods for placing ions!
I guess placing ions according to the electrostatic potential is not much used nowadays... a long time ago it was very important because simulations were run for very short times (few ps) and having a good starting reproduction of the ionic environment around the solutes was crucial for the stability of the systems, particularly for polyelectrolytes. Today, equilibrating the system for 100-500 ps is enough to have a good ion distribution. So the starting positions are not a big issue... However if you insists on fixing the initial clustering of some ions then you may try setting a separation to avoid their proximity e.g:
addIonsRand Na+ 120 Cl- 100 5
Notice: I'm assuming the charge of the RNA is -20e and setting a separation distance of 5A among ions
Best,
Matías
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De: "Wojciech Kasprzak (NIH/NCI) [C]" <wojciech.kasprzak.nih.gov>
Para: "david case" <david.case.rutgers.edu>, "AMBER Mailing List" <amber.ambermd.org>
Enviados: Miércoles, 13 de Junio 2018 17:25:51
Asunto: Re: [AMBER] Net salt ions ouside the solvent box after AddIons
Dr. Case,
Thank you very much for your reply. I will keep an eye on the updates to ion placement in LEaP.
Best regards, Voytek Kasprzak
Wojciech (Voytek) K. Kasprzak (Contractor)
Bioinformatics Analyst
Basic Science Program
Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research
Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc.
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Frederick, Maryland 21702
Phone: 301-846-5537
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From: David A Case [david.case.rutgers.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2018 4:10 PM
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Subject: Re: [AMBER] Net salt ions ouside the solvent box after AddIons
On Wed, Jun 13, 2018, Kasprzak, Wojciech (NIH/NCI) [C] wrote:
> Yet ions well outside that water box are clearly visible. So what does PBC
> run do to these atoms? Does it treat them as it would parts of the
> solute drifting outside the primary box
> later in MD?
Yes: that should be what happens.
>
> I will stay with addIonsRand in my scripts, but I would like to
> understand how this simulation did not fail?
This is wise: we are in the process of changing the way we do simulation
setup, including the way ions are placed. Unfortunately, this may mean
that no one has the real intiative to figure out the problem with the
original AddIons process (which was written 25 years ago or so.)
....regards...dac
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