Hi, I ran minim.mdp for my system with 3456 atoms. But lowest energy after minimization is positive.
*here is th screen output* Step= 4509, Dmax= 4.5e-05 nm, Epot= 4.06554e+02 Fmax= 9.86206e+00, atom= 3521 writing lowest energy coordinates. Back Off! I just backed up em.gro to ./#em.gro.1# Steepest Descents converged to Fmax < 10 in 4510 steps Potential Energy = 4.0655389e+02 Maximum force = 9.8620596e+00 on atom 352 Norm of force = 3.3500545e+00 NOTE: 16 % of the run time was spent in pair search, you might want to increase nstlist (this has no effect on accuracy) *Below is txt of minim.mdp file * ; minim.mdp - used as input into grompp to generate em.tpr integrator = steep ; Algorithm (steep = steepest descent minimization) emstep = 0.01 ; Energy step size ;emtol = 1000.0 ; Stop minimization when the maximum force < 1000.0 kJ/mol/nm nsteps = 500000 ; Maximum number of (minimization) steps to perform ; Parameters describing how to find the neighbors of each atom and how to calculate the interactions nstlist = 10 ; Frequency to update the neighbor list and long range forces rlist = 2 ; cut-off for making neighbour list (short range forces) cutoff-scheme = Verlet ns_type = grid ; Method to determine neighbor list (simple, grid) coulombtype = PME ; Treatment of long range electrostatic interactions rcoulomb = 0.9 ; Short-range electrostatic cut-off rvdw = 0.9 ; Short-range Van der Waals cut-off pbc = xyz ; Periodic Boundary Conditions (yes/no) regards -- Gromacs Users mailing list * Please search the archive at http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists/GMX-Users_List before posting! * Can't post? Read http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists * For (un)subscribe requests visit https://maillist.sys.kth.se/mailman/listinfo/gromacs.org_gmx-users or send a mail to gmx-users-requ...@gromacs.org.