Re: [AMBER-Developers] question about MC barostat

From: David Cerutti <dscerutti.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 01:24:56 -0400

Second what Jason said. It's been awhile since I messed with that code,
but I may get back to it soon. (Get back to the concept and implementation
of our Monte-Carlo barostat--I'm planning to phase out the dynamics
routines in mdgx.)

On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 5:41 PM, Jason Swails <jason.swails.gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> > On Mar 21, 2017, at 4:52 PM, Adrian Roitberg <roitberg.ufl.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > In the barostats.F90 code, both in sander and pmemd, there is term that
> > uses the number of molecules in the box as part of the MC delta H.
> >
> > Can anyone explain why we are using the # of molecules and not the # of
> > atoms ?
>
> Because scaling is done by molecule, not atoms. That is, molecules are
> translated rigidly.
>
> Mdgx does atomic scaling, but there's more complexity there in satisfying
> constraints.
>
> All the best,
> Jason
>
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Dr. Adrian E. Roitberg
> > University of Florida Research Foundation Professor.
> > Department of Chemistry
> > University of Florida
> > roitberg.ufl.edu
> > 352-392-6972
> >
> >
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