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Hello Josh and Geoff--


Goeff wrote:
> > Another issue may be if you have very large couplings you may also
> > create very large forces on the atoms, and you will need to
> > rebalance (probably lower) the RDC force constants.  You may need to
> > make the time step shorter, and refine longer, similar to Choy et
> > al.  Journal of Biomolecular NMR, 21: 31-40, 2001.
>
> If you look at figure 4 of that paper, the runs would complete, but
> the RMS or E<SANI> would hit a point in the minimization where it
> would get stuck.  Plotting that from the log file may give you some
> insight.  Slowing the dynamics allowed it to smoothly reach a
> solution. 
> 

Do note that that work used the old torsion angle dynamics facility
within the XPLOR (or CNS) interface (dynamics torsion) which employs
strictly fixed timestep sizes. The standard Python scripts use the IVM
with variable timesteps such that those types of discontinuities will be
much less likely. It is true, however, that one must always be mindful
of balancing force constants. Pretty much the only way to detect a force
constant imbalance is getting unexpectedly bad fits for one or more
terms.

best regards--
Charles
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