<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>All molecules diffuse. As such, proteins are expected to move about. Preventing them form doing so is essentially non physical, so you'd need a good and thought-through reason for doing so.</div><div><br></div><div>Erik</div><br><div><div>15 jun 2012 kl. 10.27 skrev Shima Arasteh:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Thanks.</span></div><div><span>I read that it doesn't matter if the protein moves and even protrudes the box. It's OK, but there is a question here; why doesn't the box move rather than the protein? <br></span></div><div><span>Is it possible for box to be defined every step?, then the protein would stay in the center of the box.<br></span></div><div><span></span></div><div> </div><div>Sincerely,<br>Shima<br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Mark Abraham <<a href="mailto:Mark.Abraham@anu.edu.au">Mark.Abraham@anu.edu.au</a>><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Discussion list for
GROMACS users <<a href="mailto:gmx-users@gromacs.org">gmx-users@gromacs.org</a>> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, June 14, 2012 12:22 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [gmx-users] protein near the edges of simulation box<br> </font> </div> <br>
<div id="yiv1182153667">
<div>
On 14/06/2012 5:47 PM, Shima Arasteh wrote:
<blockquote type="cite">
<div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;">
<div><span>Dear gmx friends,</span></div>
<div><br>
<span></span></div>
<div><span>I put a protein in a simulation box filled of water
molecules and entered the mdrun command. After the
simulation, I found the protein near one of the edges of the
box and not in center. What is the problem? Anyone may
suggest me? <br>
</span></div>
<div><span>Does it mean that the simulation is meaningless? <br>
</span></div>
<div><span>I expect the protein to stay in the center of box and
goes unfold by passing the time.<br>
</span></div>
<br>
</div>
</blockquote>
See <a href="http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/Terminology/Periodic_Boundary_Conditions">http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/Terminology/Periodic_Boundary_Conditions</a><br>
<br>
Mark<br>
</div>
</div><br>-- <br>gmx-users mailing list <a ymailto="mailto:gmx-users@gromacs.org" href="mailto:gmx-users@gromacs.org">gmx-users@gromacs.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users" target="_blank">http://lists.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users</a><br>Please search the archive at <a href="http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists/Search" target="_blank">http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists/Search</a> before posting!<br>Please don't post (un)subscribe requests to the list. Use the <br>www interface or send it to <a ymailto="mailto:gmx-users-request@gromacs.org" href="mailto:gmx-users-request@gromacs.org">gmx-users-request@gromacs.org</a>.<br>Can't post? Read <a href="http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists" target="_blank">http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists</a><br><br> </div> </div> </div></div>-- <br>gmx-users mailing list <a href="mailto:gmx-users@gromacs.org">gmx-users@gromacs.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users">http://lists.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users</a><br>Please search the archive at http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists/Search before posting!<br>Please don't post (un)subscribe requests to the list. Use the <br>www interface or send it to gmx-users-request@gromacs.org.<br>Can't post? Read http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists</blockquote></div><br><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>-----------------------------------------------</div><div>Erik Marklund, PhD</div><div>Dept. of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University.</div><div>Husargatan 3, Box 596, 75124 Uppsala, Sweden</div><div>phone: +46 18 471 6688 fax: +46 18 511 755</div><div><a href="mailto:erikm@xray.bmc.uu.se">erikm@xray.bmc.uu.se</a></div><div><a href="http://www2.icm.uu.se/molbio/elflab/index.html">http://www2.icm.uu.se/molbio/elflab/index.html</a></div></div></span></div></span></span>
</div>
<br></body></html>