[gmx-users] pdb as topology file

Lishan Yao yaolisha at msu.edu
Tue Apr 6 16:03:00 CEST 2004


It looks fine. It seems that gromacs uses nm as the coordinate unit. My
trajectory and pdb file (from amber) use angstrom as the unit. 

Best,
Lishan

On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 09:38, David van der Spoel wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 15:05, Lishan Yao wrote:
> > My pdb file only has C-alpha and the trajectory file only has C-alpha
> > too. You think this will cause any problem?
> if you think that the pdb file matches the xtc, then you can try to do
> trjconv -fit -o xxx.pdb
> and see what it (xxx.pdb) looks like
> > 
> > Lishan
> > 
> > On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 07:57, David van der Spoel wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 00:18, Lishan Yao wrote:
> > > > Hi:
> > > >    I use g_rms to calculate rmsd between a trajectory and a crystal
> > > > structure, by taking the pdb file as the topology file. But
> > > > unfortunately, g_rms gives me much lager numbers than what they should
> > > > be. What could be wrong?
> > > your pdb file may not have the sam enumber of atoms, e.g. H missing.
> > > Then the indexing of e.g. C-alpha atoms will be wrong.
> > > > 
> > > > Best,
> > > > Lishan
> > > > 
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