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SAS area discontinuities in COSMO tessellation #163
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Is there a simple test how the discontinuity can be observed? |
Jimmy Stewart noted seeing this in tests in the past where he adjusted the molecular geometry in some continuous manner that he did not recall or record in detail. The discontinuity is in the |
Describe the bug
There is a rare bug in COSMO that causes temporary jumps in the solvent accessible surface (SAS) area during a geometric distortion of a molecule. This has been observed for large proteins, with a magnitude of the jump being a few percent of the baseline SAS area.
To Reproduce
This bug has been reported to me by Jimmy Stewart as a known issue for a long time that isn't believed to be resolved, but that also doesn't have an isolated example of occurrence.
Expected behavior
The SAS area should be a smooth function of any geometric distortion, although the tessellation process might cause some very minor artifacts on top of the idealized behavior for a union of atom-centered spheres.
Operating system
This is likely to be an algorithmic problem and not dependent on OS.
Additional context
This bug is being reported here so that MOPAC users can be made aware of it, and so that an alert user might spot an example of the bug and report it here so that it can be isolated and fixed.
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