[gmx-users] what does g_energy actually calculate?

[David van der Spoel]

On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 12:21 +0100, Robert d'Rozario wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have calculated the energy between three amino acids in my protein using
> rerun
> and was wondering what g_energy actually calculates? I was hoping to get the
> short range coloumbic interaction energy between these three residues but
> have
> noticed that when these residues move to greater than my cutoff, the energy
> does
> not drop off to 0. So am I right in assuming that g_energy works by
> calculating
> the short range interactions of each residue with anything within the cutoff
> rather than just interaction between the residues you have specified to
> be in
> the energy group.
> 
If your mdp file and index file are correct you will get a matrix of all
interactions in the energy file for your rerun.
> Thanks
> 
> Rob
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David.
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