[gmx-users] Understanding of POPC analysis

[Justin A. Lemkul]

minnale wrote:
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> Hi all,
>       this may be trivial question to you. I am unfamiliar with gromacs. 
> My doubt is that in POPC analysis most of the cases concerning about 
> Z-axis why not X and Y. Can you please clear me this doubt.
> Thanks in advance for your suggestion.
>

By convention, we think of bilayers in the x-y plane, with the normal to the 
bilayer lying along the z-axis.  In a practical sense, it is also very 
convenient to use semiisotropic pressure coupling (applied in the x/y and z 
dimensions) for membranes.

-Justin

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Justin A. Lemkul
Graduate Research Assistant
Department of Biochemistry
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA
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