Hi Samuel,<br><br>Actually 10 000 atoms (~1000 residues) doesn't sound too bad, although it depends on the resources you have at your disposal. If the overall structure is not expected to change much, you can try to decrease the number of explicit solvent molecules by using an NDLP (Bekker
e.a. JCC 25:1037(2004)) simulation cell. It should be possible to obtain one at <a href="http://md.chem.rug.nl/ndlp/">http://md.chem.rug.nl/ndlp/</a> Otherwise, you can mail me off list and I can make you one if you want. Depending on the shape of your protein I expect it to be something in between 50k to 100k atoms in total.
<br><br>Best regards,<br><br>Tsjerk<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/6/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mark Abraham</b> <<a href="mailto:Mark.Abraham@anu.edu.au">Mark.Abraham@anu.edu.au</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Samuel Silva Pita wrote:<br>> Hi, GMXers,<br>> i've some doubts about the use of GMX and implicit solvent models.<br>> I have an huge system ( moreless 10 000 protein atoms) and trying to do MD using explicit solvents but my computer limitations doesn't work very well.
<br>> 1) someone could help me giving some light in how can i simulate my system in vacuum? I tried and my protein colapses using PME and GMX FF number 4 in GMX3.2.1;<br><br>Find a force field parameterized for vacuum simulations, or just use a
<br>random number generator.<br><br>> 2) and so, if someone have tried to incorporate implicit solvents in simulations like GB, SASA, or others . This would be useful for me if give me some instructions.<br>> sincerely,
<br><br>Not in GROMACS. Try AMBER, or doubtless others.<br><br>Mark<br>_______________________________________________<br>gmx-users mailing list <a href="mailto:gmx-users@gromacs.org">gmx-users@gromacs.org</a><br><a href="http://www.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users">
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