[gmx-users] correlation function

Justin A. Lemkul jalemkul at vt.edu
Sun Aug 23 02:02:45 CEST 2009



Jamie Seyed wrote:
> Hi Justin,
> Thanks again. I made and used coord.xvg with command
> g_analyze -f coord.xvg -ac autocorr.xvg      and I got a huge file that 
> I think I need to average over it. Would you please let me know how I 
> can get a nice average curve? Also I can see that all of them starting 
> at 1, but I do not think the average is going to 0 finally (my system is 
> 216 spce water, 20ps). Is this because the simulation time is not long 
> enough?? Many Thanks in Advance/Jamie
> 

Not sure, I've never tried such an analysis.  20 ps is pretty short, though. 
Collecting a few ns of data on such a small system should be trivial. 
Otherwise, give some indication of what's actually in the coord.xvg file; 
someone may have an idea as to what's going on.  I'm not clear what you're 
exactly after, an average of the ACF?

-Justin

> On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Justin A. Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu 
> <mailto:jalemkul at vt.edu>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>     Jamie Seyed wrote:
> 
>         Hi Justin,
>         Thanks for the answer. I want to calculate auto-correlation
>         function of R(x,y,z). I mean <R(0).R(t)> , .../Many Thanks in
>         Advance/Jamie
> 
> 
>     Coordinates?  Use g_traj.
> 
>     -Justin
> 
>         On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Justin A. Lemkul
>         <jalemkul at vt.edu <mailto:jalemkul at vt.edu>
>         <mailto:jalemkul at vt.edu <mailto:jalemkul at vt.edu>>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>            Jamie Seyed wrote:
> 
>                Hi Mark,
> 
>                Thanks for the answers. I want to use g_analyze but it
>         needs a
>                file graph.xvg as an input file. How can I get that for
>                calculation of auto-correlation function? Many Thanks in
>                Advance/Jamie
> 
> 
>            The graph.xvg file contains the data for which you want to obtain
>            the autocorrelation function.  Many of the Gromacs analysis tools
>            produce .xvg files of whatever quantity they are measuring.  I
>            suppose it would then be important to figure out what type of
>         data
>            you are trying to obtain the autocorrelation function for;
>         that will
>            determine which tool to use :)
> 
>            -Justin
> 
>                On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Mark Abraham
>                <Mark.Abraham at anu.edu.au <mailto:Mark.Abraham at anu.edu.au>
>         <mailto:Mark.Abraham at anu.edu.au <mailto:Mark.Abraham at anu.edu.au>>
>                <mailto:Mark.Abraham at anu.edu.au
>         <mailto:Mark.Abraham at anu.edu.au>
>                <mailto:Mark.Abraham at anu.edu.au
>         <mailto:Mark.Abraham at anu.edu.au>>>> wrote:
> 
>                   Jamie Seyed wrote:
> 
>                       Hi Mark,
>                       Thanks for the information. Actually in 7.4 I
>         found only
>                       g_rotacf and
>                       g_angle also g_sgangle that calculate rotation and
>         angle
>                correlation
>                       function and in appendix D I could not find related
>                topic... I
>                       appreciate if
>                       someone gives me more detail to do the job.
>                       I want to calculate <R(0).R(t)> that R is
>         coordinates vector
>                       R(x,y,z) for
>                       pure spce water.
> 
> 
>                   If that's an auto-correlation function, then g_analyze
>         does
>                the job.
>                   Searching for "correlation" in the manual was a good
>         way to
>                start.
>                   That would also have found a whole section devoted to
>         the topic,
>                   which is good reading.
> 
> 
>                       Also I have a question related to having a
>         coordinate file. I
>                       did a command
>                       as
>                       trajconv  -f  md.trr  -n f.ndx  -o md.xtc
>                       I am supposing in this case md.xtc contains only x,y,z
>                       coordinates. Is that
>                       true?? Many Thanks in Advance/Jamie
> 
> 
>                   Yes, since the compression algorithm used for .xtc
>         only works on
>                   positions. However it is a lossy compression, and if
>         you want
>                   full-precision positions-only, look at the options in
>         trjconv -h.
> 
> 
>                   Mark
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Justin A. Lemkul
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Department of Biochemistry
Virginia Tech
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