[gmx-users] Diffusion Cofficient of POPC
David van der Spoel
spoel at xray.bmc.uu.se
Wed Jul 16 08:37:06 CEST 2008
minnale wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> I have read the literature about Diffusion cofficient(Dynamics in
> atomistic simulations of phospholipid membranes: Nuclear magnetic
> resonance relaxation rates and lateral diffusion, Vol-125, page-204703,
> Journal-THE JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS)
> then I have given command like this
> g_msd -f 5ns_popc.xtc -s .tpr -n p4.ndx -o msd_popc.xvg -lateral z
> In the index file i have selceted p8 for the centre of mass and it will
> be like this
> [ P8 ]
> 8 60 112 164 ......................
>
> I got the diffusion cofficient value like this
> MSD gathered over 5000 ps with 501 restarts
> # Diffusion constants fitted from time 500 to 4500 ps
> # D[ P8] = 0.0131 (+/- 0.0190) (1e-5 cm^2/s)
>
> The actual D=(1-10)*10-7 cm2/s from above mentioned article but iam
> getting the value 1e-5 cm^2/s
Aren't you getting 0.0131e-5 = 1.31e-7?
>
> I have tried in different ways with options -type z but I didnt get the
> value near to actual value.
>
> Could you please tell me where I am doing mistake
>
> Thanks alot in advance.
>
>
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