Re: Re: [gmx-users] vacuum right but melt collapse

2007-03-09 Thread Tsjerk Wassenaar

Hi Kitty,

Your english is quite ok.., no need to worry about that too much.
Earlier remarks to someone else also had to do more with poor grammar
structure, making it very hard to follow the question.

First, if I didn't make it clear enough, you have to find the papers
from Jorgenson about the OPLS force field.

Second, the thing with parameterization of force fields is this: a set
of parameters is derived to obtain a good fit of the simulation
behaviour to experimentally or ab initio derived data. If a force
field is parameterized taking only interactions into account within a
sphere of a certain radius, than the fit between the behaviour
obtained with these parameters and the desired behaviour will worsen
if each particle suddenly "sees" particles it wasn't supposed to see.
This particularly applies to C6/C12 Lennard-Jones parameters.
Now if it doesn't become clear to you, please read about force fields
and force field development. That is a vital part of molecular
dynamics simulations, and I wouldn't recommend doing simulations, if
you don't have a basic understanding of these things.

Although highly relevant to your work, I do think that there more
fundamental problems underlying your initial question posted. Changing
the cut-off shouldn't really make the difference between explosion and
proper behaviour.

Cheers,

Tsjerk


On 3/9/07, kitty ji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:



Hi Wassenaar:

As mensioned in GMX manual3.3 , the parameter of OPLS force field is listed
bellow:

Name FUNCTION
bond  1
pair  1
angle 1
dihedral  3
nb1
Col   3

In the manual,4.6.3 Treatment of Cutoffs,it is said that "In the neighbor
list all
interaction pairs that fall within rlist are stored. Furthermore, the
interactions between pairs
that do not fall within rlist but do fall within max(rcoulomb,rvdw) are
computed during
NS, and the forces and energy are stored separately, and added to
short-range forces at every time
step between successive NS."

From the paragraph, I concluded that when the distance of cutoff is
increased, the further interaction pair will be considered. So the presion
will be increased also.

I modified the cutoff from 1.5 nm to 1.2 nm.Till now the system is not
exploding. Whatever 1.5 nm or 1.2 nm, it has been proved that 0.9 nm is too
short to simulating with OPLS.

By the way, where do you find the critical value 1.2 nm. I can not found it
by google. But there is really a lot of works used that values. Thank you
very much.

For the IE format, these mail was copied from WORD. Because I'm not
confident with my English.:)


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Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 10:07:47 +0100
From: "Tsjerk Wassenaar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Re: [gmx-users] vacuum right but melt collapse
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Hi Kitty,

OPLS was developed (IIRC) for use with a cut-off of 1.2 nm. Not
shorter, not longer. If you set the cut-off higher, you introduce
additional force components; noise, artefacts, not precision. It may
be good to do some reading about force fields and the parameterization
thereof.

The reaction field is a correction for the neglect of electrostatic
interaction beyond the cut off. It should be used when using a GROMOS
force field, as those are parameterized for use with it. Regarding
OPLS, I'm not sure. I thought it was not parameterized for use with
RF, but either a plain cut-off or a cut-off with a switch function.
You should check the OPLS papers to be sure.

By the way, please keep discussions on the list... In that way, it is
publicly archived, which potentially saves us a lot of trouble
answering the same questions over and over.

Cheers,

Tsjerk

On 3/9/07, kitty ji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> The force field I used here is OPLS. Increasing the cutoff means to
increase the precision of caluculation not "underlying cause". Therefore it
is acceptable. In addition, it is said that cutoff 9 angstrom is not enough
for electricity calculation.
>
> what is using reaction-field? I thought it was not used here.
>
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Tsjerk Wassenaar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "kitty ji" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Discussion list for GROMACS users"

> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 10:34 PM
> Subject: Re: Re: [gmx-users] vacuum right but melt collapse
>
>
> Hi Kitty,
>
> Such a solution is unsatisfactory, as it seems that you're masking an
> underlying cause. Now, I'm not sure of your other parameters, but when
> using a cut-off (do you use reaction-field) you would usually (gromos
> force field) us

Re: Re: [gmx-users] vacuum right but melt collapse

2007-03-09 Thread kitty ji
Hi Wassenaar:

As mensioned in GMX manual3.3 , the parameter of OPLS force field is listed 
bellow:

Name FUNCTION
bond  1
pair  1
angle 1
dihedral  3 
nb1
Col   3

In the manual,4.6.3 Treatment of Cutoffs,it is said that "In the neighbor list 
all
interaction pairs that fall within rlist are stored. Furthermore, the 
interactions between pairs
that do not fall within rlist but do fall within max(rcoulomb,rvdw) are 
computed during
NS, and the forces and energy are stored separately, and added to short-range 
forces at every time
step between successive NS."

From the paragraph, I concluded that when the distance of cutoff is increased, 
the further interaction pair will be considered. So the presion will be 
increased also.

I modified the cutoff from 1.5 nm to 1.2 nm.Till now the system is not 
exploding. Whatever 1.5 nm or 1.2 nm, it has been proved that 0.9 nm is too 
short to simulating with OPLS.

By the way, where do you find the critical value 1.2 nm. I can not found it by 
google. But there is really a lot of works used that values. Thank you very 
much.

For the IE format, these mail was copied from WORD. Because I'm not confident 
with my English.:)


Message: 7
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 10:07:47 +0100
From: "Tsjerk Wassenaar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Re: [gmx-users] vacuum right but melt collapse
To: "kitty ji" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Discussion list for GROMACS
users" 
Message-ID:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed

Hi Kitty,

OPLS was developed (IIRC) for use with a cut-off of 1.2 nm. Not
shorter, not longer. If you set the cut-off higher, you introduce
additional force components; noise, artefacts, not precision. It may
be good to do some reading about force fields and the parameterization
thereof.

The reaction field is a correction for the neglect of electrostatic
interaction beyond the cut off. It should be used when using a GROMOS
force field, as those are parameterized for use with it. Regarding
OPLS, I'm not sure. I thought it was not parameterized for use with
RF, but either a plain cut-off or a cut-off with a switch function.
You should check the OPLS papers to be sure.

By the way, please keep discussions on the list... In that way, it is
publicly archived, which potentially saves us a lot of trouble
answering the same questions over and over.

Cheers,

Tsjerk

On 3/9/07, kitty ji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> The force field I used here is OPLS. Increasing the cutoff means to increase 
> the precision of caluculation not "underlying cause". Therefore it is 
> acceptable. In addition, it is said that cutoff 9 angstrom is not enough for 
> electricity calculation.
>
> what is using reaction-field? I thought it was not used here.
>
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Tsjerk Wassenaar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "kitty ji" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Discussion list for GROMACS users" 
> 
> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 10:34 PM
> Subject: Re: Re: [gmx-users] vacuum right but melt collapse
>
>
> Hi Kitty,
>
> Such a solution is unsatisfactory, as it seems that you're masking an
> underlying cause. Now, I'm not sure of your other parameters, but when
> using a cut-off (do you use reaction-field) you would usually (gromos
> force field) use a twin-range of 0.9/1.4, which is what the force
> field was parameterized for.
>
> If you look at the energies in order to find the cause of a crash, you
> want to look for the energy term first displaying strange behaviour.
> You also may want to try setting the neighbour list update to every
> step.
>
> And please, don't use html formatted e-mails... :)
>
> Hope it helps,
>
> Tsjerk
>
>
> On 3/8/07, kitty ji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Tsjerk Wassenaar, thank you very much for you suggestion even if most of
> > them have been manipulated.
> >
> >
> >
> > "Write out the energies at every step and check which of the energy
> > contributions goes astray. This may give you a good clue to where
> > you're mistake is. Also, run through the topology again, by hand,
> > checking all bonds, angles, dihedrals, exclusion (implicit ones!),
> > etc."
> >
> > when the explosion happened, the energy of bond, angle and potential will
> > were increase. And the topology has been checked several times.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Now I increase the cutoff of VDW & Coulomb from 0.9 to 1.5. The system looks
> > ok from last night to this time. If the problem is fixed, I

Re: Re: [gmx-users] vacuum right but melt collapse

2007-03-09 Thread Tsjerk Wassenaar

Hi Kitty,

OPLS was developed (IIRC) for use with a cut-off of 1.2 nm. Not
shorter, not longer. If you set the cut-off higher, you introduce
additional force components; noise, artefacts, not precision. It may
be good to do some reading about force fields and the parameterization
thereof.

The reaction field is a correction for the neglect of electrostatic
interaction beyond the cut off. It should be used when using a GROMOS
force field, as those are parameterized for use with it. Regarding
OPLS, I'm not sure. I thought it was not parameterized for use with
RF, but either a plain cut-off or a cut-off with a switch function.
You should check the OPLS papers to be sure.

By the way, please keep discussions on the list... In that way, it is
publicly archived, which potentially saves us a lot of trouble
answering the same questions over and over.

Cheers,

Tsjerk

On 3/9/07, kitty ji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Thanks for your reply.

The force field I used here is OPLS. Increasing the cutoff means to increase the 
precision of caluculation not "underlying cause". Therefore it is acceptable. 
In addition, it is said that cutoff 9 angstrom is not enough for electricity calculation.

what is using reaction-field? I thought it was not used here.


- Original Message -
From: "Tsjerk Wassenaar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "kitty ji" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Discussion list for GROMACS users" 

Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 10:34 PM
Subject: Re: Re: [gmx-users] vacuum right but melt collapse


Hi Kitty,

Such a solution is unsatisfactory, as it seems that you're masking an
underlying cause. Now, I'm not sure of your other parameters, but when
using a cut-off (do you use reaction-field) you would usually (gromos
force field) use a twin-range of 0.9/1.4, which is what the force
field was parameterized for.

If you look at the energies in order to find the cause of a crash, you
want to look for the energy term first displaying strange behaviour.
You also may want to try setting the neighbour list update to every
step.

And please, don't use html formatted e-mails... :)

Hope it helps,

Tsjerk


On 3/8/07, kitty ji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
>
> Tsjerk Wassenaar, thank you very much for you suggestion even if most of
> them have been manipulated.
>
>
>
> "Write out the energies at every step and check which of the energy
> contributions goes astray. This may give you a good clue to where
> you're mistake is. Also, run through the topology again, by hand,
> checking all bonds, angles, dihedrals, exclusion (implicit ones!),
> etc."
>
> when the explosion happened, the energy of bond, angle and potential will
> were increase. And the topology has been checked several times.
>
>
>
>
>
> Now I increase the cutoff of VDW & Coulomb from 0.9 to 1.5. The system looks
> ok from last night to this time. If the problem is fixed, I conclude that
> cutoff 0.9 is not enough for electric system.
>
>
>
> Hope this conclusion is helpful for GMX users.
>
>
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 17:49:30 +0100
> From: "Tsjerk Wassenaar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Re: [gmx-users] vacuum right but melt collapse
> To: "kitty ji" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Discussion list for GROMACS
> users" 
> Message-ID:
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=GB2312; format=flowed
>
>
> Hi Ji Qing,
>
> Write out the energies at every step and check which of the energy
> contributions goes astray. This may give you a good clue to where
> you're mistake is. Also, run through the topology again, by hand,
> checking all bonds, angles, dihedrals, exclusion (implicit ones!),
> etc.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Tsjerk
>
> On 3/7/07, kitty ji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Thanks Mark.
> > But when one polymer chain was used, non-bonded interaction has already
> been
> > there. Because one chain means C44H156O22.
> > After all, I'd like to try more chains.
> >
> > Message: 1
> > Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 17:01:52 +1100
> > From: Mark Abraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > Subject: Re: [gmx-users] vacuum right but melt collapse
> > To: Discussion list for GROMACS users 
> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=GB2312
> >
> > kitty ji wrote:
> > > Hi GMX user:
> > >
> > > A model for Poly(vinyl methyl ether) was built with OPLS force field (
> > > all H ).
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > When the model was run alone (a single chain) in vacuum, anything goes
> ok.
> > >
> > >
>

Re: Re: [gmx-users] vacuum right but melt collapse

2007-03-08 Thread Tsjerk Wassenaar

Hi Kitty,

Such a solution is unsatisfactory, as it seems that you're masking an
underlying cause. Now, I'm not sure of your other parameters, but when
using a cut-off (do you use reaction-field) you would usually (gromos
force field) use a twin-range of 0.9/1.4, which is what the force
field was parameterized for.

If you look at the energies in order to find the cause of a crash, you
want to look for the energy term first displaying strange behaviour.
You also may want to try setting the neighbour list update to every
step.

And please, don't use html formatted e-mails... :)

Hope it helps,

Tsjerk


On 3/8/07, kitty ji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:





Tsjerk Wassenaar, thank you very much for you suggestion even if most of
them have been manipulated.



"Write out the energies at every step and check which of the energy
contributions goes astray. This may give you a good clue to where
you're mistake is. Also, run through the topology again, by hand,
checking all bonds, angles, dihedrals, exclusion (implicit ones!),
etc."

when the explosion happened, the energy of bond, angle and potential will
were increase. And the topology has been checked several times.





Now I increase the cutoff of VDW & Coulomb from 0.9 to 1.5. The system looks
ok from last night to this time. If the problem is fixed, I conclude that
cutoff 0.9 is not enough for electric system.



Hope this conclusion is helpful for GMX users.



Message: 2
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 17:49:30 +0100
From: "Tsjerk Wassenaar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Re: [gmx-users] vacuum right but melt collapse
To: "kitty ji" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Discussion list for GROMACS
users" 
Message-ID:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=GB2312; format=flowed


Hi Ji Qing,

Write out the energies at every step and check which of the energy
contributions goes astray. This may give you a good clue to where
you're mistake is. Also, run through the topology again, by hand,
checking all bonds, angles, dihedrals, exclusion (implicit ones!),
etc.

Good luck,

Tsjerk

On 3/7/07, kitty ji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
>
> Thanks Mark.
> But when one polymer chain was used, non-bonded interaction has already
been
> there. Because one chain means C44H156O22.
> After all, I'd like to try more chains.
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 17:01:52 +1100
> From: Mark Abraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> Subject: Re: [gmx-users] vacuum right but melt collapse
> To: Discussion list for GROMACS users 
> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=GB2312
>
> kitty ji wrote:
> > Hi GMX user:
> >
> > A model for Poly(vinyl methyl ether) was built with OPLS force field (
> > all H ).
> >
> >
> >
> > When the model was run alone (a single chain) in vacuum, anything goes
ok.
> >
> >
> >
> > But with 45 chains box, the system will be collapse with a little bond
> > elongates abnormal whatever in NVT or NPT.
> >
> >
> >
> > The relax time of pressure and temperature were adjust but no helpful.
> >
> >
> >
> > How can I found some possible reason and then fix it ? Any advise will
> > be appreciated.
>
> If an isolated molecule doesn't do anything strange, and two more more
> do, then you have a problem with inter-molecular interactions, i.e. the
> non-bonded ones. Try with just 2 chains to verify this... and look
> carefully at the atom types and the non-bonded parameters for them.
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> *
> Ji Qing
> Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
> Tel: 0086-10-62562894  £¬82618423
> *
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Re: Re: [gmx-users] vacuum right but melt collapse

2007-03-07 Thread kitty ji
Tsjerk Wassenaar, thank you very much for you suggestion even if most of them 
have been manipulated. 

 

"Write out the energies at every step and check which of the energy
contributions goes astray. This may give you a good clue to where
you're mistake is. Also, run through the topology again, by hand,
checking all bonds, angles, dihedrals, exclusion (implicit ones!),
etc."

when the explosion happened, the energy of bond, angle and potential will were 
increase. And the topology has been checked several times. 

 

 

Now I increase the cutoff of VDW & Coulomb from 0.9 to 1.5. The system looks ok 
from last night to this time. If the problem is fixed, I conclude that cutoff 
0.9 is not enough for electric system.



Hope this conclusion is helpful for GMX users.




Message: 2
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 17:49:30 +0100
From: "Tsjerk Wassenaar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Re: [gmx-users] vacuum right but melt collapse
To: "kitty ji" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Discussion list for GROMACS
users" 
Message-ID:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=GB2312; format=flowed

Hi Ji Qing,

Write out the energies at every step and check which of the energy
contributions goes astray. This may give you a good clue to where
you're mistake is. Also, run through the topology again, by hand,
checking all bonds, angles, dihedrals, exclusion (implicit ones!),
etc.

Good luck,

Tsjerk

On 3/7/07, kitty ji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Thanks Mark.
> But when one polymer chain was used, non-bonded interaction has already been
> there. Because one chain means C44H156O22.
> After all, I'd like to try more chains.
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 17:01:52 +1100
> From: Mark Abraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [gmx-users] vacuum right but melt collapse
> To: Discussion list for GROMACS users 
> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=GB2312
>
> kitty ji wrote:
> > Hi GMX user:
> >
> > A model for Poly(vinyl methyl ether) was built with OPLS force field (
> > all H ).
> >
> >
> >
> > When the model was run alone (a single chain) in vacuum, anything goes ok.
> >
> >
> >
> > But with 45 chains box, the system will be collapse with a little bond
> > elongates abnormal whatever in NVT or NPT.
> >
> >
> >
> > The relax time of pressure and temperature were adjust but no helpful.
> >
> >
> >
> > How can I found some possible reason and then fix it ? Any advise will
> > be appreciated.
>
> If an isolated molecule doesn't do anything strange, and two more more
> do, then you have a problem with inter-molecular interactions, i.e. the
> non-bonded ones. Try with just 2 chains to verify this... and look
> carefully at the atom types and the non-bonded parameters for them.
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> *
> Ji Qing
> Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
> Tel: 0086-10-62562894  £¬82618423
> *
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Re: Re: [gmx-users] vacuum right but melt collapse

2007-03-07 Thread Tsjerk Wassenaar

Hi Ji Qing,

Write out the energies at every step and check which of the energy
contributions goes astray. This may give you a good clue to where
you're mistake is. Also, run through the topology again, by hand,
checking all bonds, angles, dihedrals, exclusion (implicit ones!),
etc.

Good luck,

Tsjerk

On 3/7/07, kitty ji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:



Thanks Mark.
But when one polymer chain was used, non-bonded interaction has already been
there. Because one chain means C44H156O22.
After all, I'd like to try more chains.

Message: 1
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 17:01:52 +1100
From: Mark Abraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [gmx-users] vacuum right but melt collapse
To: Discussion list for GROMACS users 
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=GB2312

kitty ji wrote:
> Hi GMX user:
>
> A model for Poly(vinyl methyl ether) was built with OPLS force field (
> all H ).
>
>
>
> When the model was run alone (a single chain) in vacuum, anything goes ok.
>
>
>
> But with 45 chains box, the system will be collapse with a little bond
> elongates abnormal whatever in NVT or NPT.
>
>
>
> The relax time of pressure and temperature were adjust but no helpful.
>
>
>
> How can I found some possible reason and then fix it ? Any advise will
> be appreciated.

If an isolated molecule doesn't do anything strange, and two more more
do, then you have a problem with inter-molecular interactions, i.e. the
non-bonded ones. Try with just 2 chains to verify this... and look
carefully at the atom types and the non-bonded parameters for them.

Mark



*
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Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Tel: 0086-10-62562894  ,82618423
*
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re: Re: [gmx-users] vacuum right but melt collapse

2007-03-06 Thread kitty ji
Thanks Mark.
But when one polymer chain was used, non-bonded interaction has already been 
there. Because one chain means C44H156O22.
After all, I'd like to try more chains.

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Subject: Re: [gmx-users] vacuum right but melt collapse
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kitty ji wrote:
> Hi GMX user:
> 
> A model for Poly(vinyl methyl ether) was built with OPLS force field ( 
> all H ).
> 
>  
> 
> When the model was run alone (a single chain) in vacuum, anything goes ok.
> 
>  
> 
> But with 45 chains box, the system will be collapse with a little bond 
> elongates abnormal whatever in NVT or NPT.
> 
>  
> 
> The relax time of pressure and temperature were adjust but no helpful.
> 
>  
> 
> How can I found some possible reason and then fix it ? Any advise will 
> be appreciated.

If an isolated molecule doesn't do anything strange, and two more more
do, then you have a problem with inter-molecular interactions, i.e. the
non-bonded ones. Try with just 2 chains to verify this... and look
carefully at the atom types and the non-bonded parameters for them.

Mark



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Re: [gmx-users] vacuum right but melt collapse

2007-03-05 Thread Mark Abraham
kitty ji wrote:
> Hi GMX user:
> 
> A model for Poly(vinyl methyl ether) was built with OPLS force field ( 
> all H ).
> 
>  
> 
> When the model was run alone (a single chain) in vacuum, anything goes ok.
> 
>  
> 
> But with 45 chains box, the system will be collapse with a little bond 
> elongates abnormal whatever in NVT or NPT.
> 
>  
> 
> The relax time of pressure and temperature were adjust but no helpful.
> 
>  
> 
> How can I found some possible reason and then fix it ? Any advise will 
> be appreciated.

If an isolated molecule doesn't do anything strange, and two more more
do, then you have a problem with inter-molecular interactions, i.e. the
non-bonded ones. Try with just 2 chains to verify this... and look
carefully at the atom types and the non-bonded parameters for them.

Mark
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