[gmx-users] calculate number of contacts

[David van der Spoel]

On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Attilio Vargiu wrote:

>Hi All
>I want to calculate the number of contacts between a small molecule and a
>oligonucleotide from a MD run.
>I read in the manual that in the itp file is possible, setting 2 for the
>combination rule within the section [ defaults ], to give sigma and
>epsilon instead of c6 and c12 LJ parameters.
>If I'm not wrong, the value of the interaction at the equilibrium point is
>-epsilon, so putting epsilon=1 for all but hydrogens atoms types in itp
>file, and setting a cutoff of 3.5 or 4 angstrom, re-running the trajectory
>with the proper groups in energy specifications, I should approximately
>get the number of contacts.
>Unfortunately this seems not to be the case, I get a number of contacts of
>one order of magnitude bigger than expected, but I do not understand
>what's going wrong...
>
>There is something I'm missing or misunderstanding?
>Can anyone help me?!?!?!?
>

you are mixiing things up. calculating the number of contact is done after 
a simulation using an analysis tool (g_mindist -on). This has nothing to 
do with simulation settings, topoogies etc.

>Thanks in advance
>Attilio
>
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>Attilio Vittorio Vargiu
>PhD in Biophysics at SISSA/ISAS
>via Beirut 2-4, Trieste (Italy)
>phone: 00390403787335
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