[AMBER] restraint 10 kcal/mol

From: Debarati DasGupta <debarati_dasgupta.hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2020 18:35:38 +0000

Hi All
I am a bit confused with regard to the NVT production runs of TI setup I had established a few weeks back.
My ligand of interest is ethanol and my prod.in file looks like this:
[SITE1]$ cat ./0.11505/prod_NVT.in
&cntrl
    imin = 0, nstlim = 20000000, dt = 0.001,
    irest = 1, ntx = 5, ig = -1,
    tempi = 300.0, temp0 = 300.0,
    ntwx = 10000, ntwe = 10000, ntwr = 10000, ntpr = 10000,ntwv=-1, ntave =1000,
    cut = 11.0,
    ntt =3, ntb = 1, ntp = 0, gamma_ln=3, iwrap = 1,
    ntc = 1, ntf = 1, tol = 0.00001,
    nsnb = 10, nscm = 10,
    ioutfm=1,
    taup = 2,
    ntr=1, restraintmask=':EOH', restraint_wt=10.00,
    icfe = 1, clambda = 0.11505, ifsc=1,
    timask1=':EOH',timask2='',
    scmask1=':EOH', scmask2=''
&end
&ewald
   skinnb=2, nfft1=96, nfft2=96, nfft3=96,
/

So, after the run was complete, I was curious to see how far my ligand has translated from its tether point.. and after doing a COM distance cpptraj script run, I find that for 3 lambda values 0.11505, 0.20634, and 0.31608; the ligand has moved around quite a bit as in > 3 Angstroms from its initial solvated state. Is this expected or am I doing something wrong in putting the restraint weight and mask?
I thought that 10 kcal/mol is quite a big force to keep ligand restrained in the pocket. I was not expecting a 3-4 Angstrom jiggling of the ligand atoms.
Should I be worried?
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