[AMBER] Why using a cutoff or 8.0 for proteins and 10.0 for proteins embeded in a membrane?

From: Téletchéa Stéphane via AMBER <amber.ambermd.org>
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2023 18:35:38 +0200

Dear all,

I'm a long term user of AMBER but probably missed some important steps
in FF development,
since I was used to a 8.0 cutoff for old FF, but I see here and there a
cutoff of 10.0 being used,
and sometimes mixed between parameters or articles.

For instance, in tutorial "3.1 Relaxtion of Explicit Water Systems", the
1min.in file contains "cut=10.0",
but the 3md.in file contains "cut=8.0", as indicated as the default
value in AMBER manual.

I have also seen this cutoff value of 10.0 for the recent lipids21 force
field publication, and the accompanying
github files.

Is there a strong bias by using 10 or 8 for protein FF (FFSB14 or FFSB19
?) and/or a protein in a lipid membrane?

Thanks a lot for clarification, this is puzzling me, and I have not
found a simple answer to it.

Stéphane

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