[gmx-users] question about xaver.pdb from g_rmsf

[David]

On Sat, 2003-10-11 at 16:37, Marc Baaden wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> could somebody give some details on how the average coordinates
> in xaver.pdb (generated via g_rmsf -ox) are calculated ? I have
> compared with a homewritten perl script that calculates the average
> by equally averaging all frames.
> 
> If I only analyze the coordinates of a single frame, the result is
> identical.
> 
> For any bigger number of frames there is a deviation.
> 
> I have verified my perl script (by re-calculating the averages by
> hand), and it is correct, eg does the simple average weighting
> every frame the same (ignoring time information).
> 
> What does g_rmsf do differently ?

it also does a LSQ fit by default.

> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Marc
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David.
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