On 9/10/13 9:12 PM, Dwey wrote:
Hi All.
I work on a simulation of a membrane protein in a model membrane
(DPPC) with a total of 26,859 atoms. In a step of NPT equilibration,
my mdp file is used for a 100 ps NPT and it has a reference pressure
of 1 bar.
At the end of simulation, I obtained a result of the average
pressure of the system ( ~ -0.90 bar) like
Energy Average Err.Est. RMSD Tot-Drift
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Pressure -0.9049 2.6 186.304 13.8503 (bar)
I am wondering if I should keep running this NPT process until the
average pressure of the system reaches ~ 1.0 bar.
If so, how long ( how many steps) ?
Or should I modify mdp file ? Can anyone provide some suggestions ?
If you want commentary on your .mdp file, you need to provide the actual .mdp
file.
Likewise, at the end of Production MD for 1 ns, I obtained average
pressure (~2.23 bar) of the system like
Energy Average Err.Est. RMSD Tot-Drift
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Pressure 2.23349 2.1 164.97 10.9381 (bar)
Should I run a longer simulation until the average pressure reaches ~
1.0 bar, although average energy, average temperature (323 K),
average density (1022 kg/m^3) are already at the desired values ?
How should I do to stabilize average pressure at a desired value (~1 bar) ?
None of this looks abnormal to me at all. This topic is discussed very
frequently on the list, so please refer to the archive for extensive discussion
about the theory of pressure calculations and what the output means. Also have
a look at http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/Terminology/Pressure and ask
yourself whether 2 ± 165 is significantly different from the target value of 1.
Also realize the 1 ns is extremely short for a membrane system, which normally
take tens of ns to equilibrate.
-Justin
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