[gmx-users] CLUSTERING:Number of clusters as function of time.

[David van der Spoel]

On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Mr.Sridhar wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I wanted to know the number of conformations the protein has taken in my
>MD run trajectory. For this I am clustering the snapshots using g_cluster.
>I mainly wanted to know how the number of clusters varies with time.
>
>In the result file (clust-id.xvg), I found the number of clusters increase
>and decrease. To my knowledge, the number of clusters should steadily
>increase with time and then reach a plateau where the system visits no
>more new conformations.
>
You can have at most one cluster per timestep. I think clust-id.xvg gives
you something else. In fact I think it first does the cluster analysis
over the complete trajectory, and then this file goves you for each
timestep the cluster-identification number.


>Could any body explain why the number of clusters
>show fluctuations of high and low values instead of gradually increasing
>with time?
>
>Regards,
>
>sridhar
>
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David.
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