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Chem3D Users Manual - CambridgeSoft

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• Terminate After—causes the molecular<br />

dynamics run to stop after the specified<br />

number of steps. The total time of the run is<br />

the Step Interval times the number of steps.<br />

• Heating/Cooling Rate—dictates whether<br />

temperature adjustments are made. If the<br />

Heating/Cooling Rate check box is checked,<br />

the Heating/Cooling Rate slider determines<br />

the rate at which energy is added to or removed<br />

from the model when it is far from the target<br />

temperature.<br />

A heating/cooling rate of approximately 1.0<br />

kcal/atom/picosecond results in small<br />

corrections which minimally disturb the<br />

trajectory. A much higher rate quickly heats up<br />

the model, but an equilibration or stabilization<br />

period is required to yield statistically<br />

meaningful results.<br />

To compute an isoenthalpic trajectory<br />

(constant total energy), deselect<br />

Heating/Cooling Rate.<br />

• Target Temperature—the final temperature<br />

to which the calculation will run. Energy is<br />

added to or removed from the model when the<br />

computed temperature varies more than 3%<br />

from the target temperature.<br />

The computed temperature used for this<br />

purpose is an exponentially weighted average<br />

temperature with a memory half-life of about<br />

20 steps.<br />

Job Type Settings<br />

Use the Job Type tab to set options for the<br />

computation.<br />

Select the appropriate options:<br />

If you want to … Then Click …<br />

record each iteration<br />

as a frame in a movie<br />

for later replay<br />

track a particular<br />

measurement<br />

restrict movement of<br />

a selected part of a<br />

model during the<br />

minimization<br />

Record Every<br />

Iteration.<br />

Copy Measurements<br />

to Output.<br />

Move Only Selected<br />

Atoms.<br />

Constraint is not<br />

imposed on any term in<br />

the calculation and the<br />

values of any results are<br />

not affected.<br />

ChemOffice 2005/<strong>Chem3D</strong> MM2 and MM3 Computations • 159<br />

Molecular Dynamics

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