There are defaults for those values. Generally you want RP to not go below
2 or 2.5. The solvent:solvent clipping radius can be very high for adding
small numbers of rare species, so make sure they are spread out. The
clipping radius is the minimum distance that AddToBox will allow any atoms
of a new molecule to be placed from existing protein or solvent atoms. The
"protein" atoms are defined as the first -P atoms of the system, everything
else is solvent. Add rare, large species of solvent first, then smaller
and more common ones.
Dave
On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 9:07 AM David A Case <david.case.rutgers.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 08, 2019, Lucas Bandeira wrote:
> >
> >Could one help me with the term "clipping radius". What it exactly means
> >and how can I find the right values for protein atoms and for solvent
> atoms
> >( -RP and -RW in AddToBox).
>
> This is not definitive, but I always use RP of 2.5 and RW of 2.8 for
> either waters or monatomic ions. I remember that years ago I played
> around with these values (and you can experiment as well), but I don't
> seem to be able to find the record of how I arrived at these values....
>
> If you are adding bigger solvent molecules, you will probably have to
> experiment some: see the Reference manual for suggestions.
>
> [Dave: should we not add some defaults, and suggested values (maybe
> different than those above) to the Manual?]
>
> ....dac
>
>
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