He, Yang wrote:
Hi Justin,

My box size is 3.13690   3.73000   2.70000 and I  use  the user-defined 
potential functions.


Is that box size adequate to avoid interaction of periodic images of your DNA? Typical B-DNA is about 2 nm wide, if 2.7 nm is the width of your box, I'd bet you're getting artefactual PBC interactions.

#define _FF_GROMACS
#define _FF_GROMACS1

[ defaults ]
; nbfunc        comb-rule       gen-pairs       fudgeLJ fudgeQQ
  1                     1               no                  1.0       1.0

#include "ffyxhnb.itp"
#include "ffyxhbon.itp"


Well, if you're defining your own potential, I'd look there for spurious repulsive terms. If the DNA is shearing apart, your repulsion between atoms may be too large. Combine that with artefactual PBC interactions, and that may give rise to your strange behavior.

This is my ffyxh.itp file

Also  I have change the value of  tau_t by 0.1 but it did not work.

Please let me know if you need any further information.

The entirety of the .mdp file, and what you've defined in your *nb.itp *bon.itp files, in case there's anything obviously wrong.

-Justin


Thank you.

Yang
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He, Yang wrote:
Hi all users,

When I change the temperature to try to get different disassociation about the 
two DNA's strands. But even I change the value of temperature by 0K in the mdp 
file ,

; OPTIONS FOR WEAK COUPLING ALGORITHMS
; Temperature coupling
Tcoupl                   = berendsen
; Groups to couple separately
tc-grps                  = System
; Time constant (ps) and reference temperature (K)
tau_t                    = 0.001
ref_t                    = 300

I don't know if this is relevant or not, but a coupling constant of 0.001 is
exceptionally short.  What is the timestep in your simulation?  Typically one
sees tau_t = 0.1 with a timestep of 0.001-0.002 ps.

; Pressure coupling
Pcoupl                   = no
Pcoupltype               = isotropic
; Time constant (ps), compressibility (1/bar) and reference P (bar)
tau_p                    = 0.5
compressibility          = 4.5e-5
ref_p                    = 1.0
; Random seed for Andersen thermostat
andersen_seed            = 815131

It  will also disassociate .It is strange.

So the dissociation occurs at 0K and 300K?  Sounds like something is
fundamentally flawed with your system setup.  How large is your box?  What force
field are you using?

-Justin

Can anyone of you tell me what is the reason for that?

Thank you in advance.

Yang
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