[gmx-users] Re:trestart

[David van der Spoel]

Sunil Thapa wrote:
> Respectable Justin/David/Mark and all other Experts
> Grettings
> 
> I am not clear about the function of the option -trestart in g_msd
> With trestart =0 the msd curve is very kinky which really improves to a smooth one when trestart=1 is set. But when I increase the value to 10, 20 and 100 ps the smoothness of the curve is lost again.
> 
> In one article MD STUDY OF DIFFUSION OF FORMALDEHYDE ON ICE which did not use GROMACS, there was this term -tresart which was used to take the average of MSD curve itself by dividing it into the components of timeslots specified by trestart. Is g_msd doing that impicitly with the value of -trestart.
> 
> Please help me out. There is not much information about it in the gromacs user manaul. 
> 

g_msd -h


> Sunil Kumar Thapa
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