[gmx-users] g_rms problem

[David]

On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 14:00, Dmitry Kovalsky wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to use g_rms to compare a final conformation to an initial one by 
> computing rmsd of their  Ca atoms. It gives me a value of 3A. Visual 
> comparision tells me that this value is too high. I used DeepView to do it 
> again and it gives me a value of 1.6A, which is reasonable. Why g_rms gives 
> high values or tell me what I'm doing wrong.
> 

That's weird... Can you compare the results to g_confrms too?
That is a different implementation of the RMSD. It almost seems like a
sqrt, but in the code the sqrt is in place... 
> 
> Dima 
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Groeten, David.
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