[gmx-users] g_dist output

John Shultz jackygrahamez at gmail.com
Tue Mar 9 15:03:25 CET 2010


Here is what our script is doing. It looks to me like we are analyzing
the tpr when we should be checking the xtc or trr if I understand you
correctly. And if we look at the trajectory we can measure the drift
for the entire simulation rather than a specific instance.


make_ndx -f md.tpr < make_ndx.txt
                         :-)  G  R  O  M  A  C  S  (-:

                      GROup of MAchos and Cynical Suckers

                            :-)  VERSION 4.0.5  (-:


      Written by David van der Spoel, Erik Lindahl, Berk Hess, and others.
       Copyright (c) 1991-2000, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
             Copyright (c) 2001-2008, The GROMACS development team,
            check out http://www.gromacs.org for more information.

         This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
          modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
         as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
             of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

                               :-)  make_ndx  (-:

Option     Filename  Type         Description
------------------------------------------------------------
  -f         md.tpr  Input, Opt!  Structure file: gro g96 pdb tpr tpb tpa
  -n      index.ndx  Input, Opt., Mult. Index file
  -o      index.ndx  Output       Index file

Option       Type   Value   Description
------------------------------------------------------
-[no]h       bool   no      Print help info and quit
-nice        int    0       Set the nicelevel
-natoms      int    0       set number of atoms (default: read from
                            coordinate or index file)

Reading file md.tpr, VERSION 4.0.5 (single precision)

Reading structure file
Reading file md.tpr, VERSION 4.0.5 (single precision)
Going to read 0 old index file(s)
Analysing residue names:
Opening library file /usr/local/gromacs/share/gromacs/top/aminoacids.dat
There are: 11489      OTHER residues
There are:   244    PROTEIN residues
There are:     0        DNA residues
Analysing Protein...
Analysing Other...

  0 System              : 38210 atoms
  1 Protein             :  3868 atoms
  2 Protein-H           :  1980 atoms
  3 C-alpha             :   244 atoms
  4 Backbone            :   732 atoms
  5 MainChain           :   974 atoms
  6 MainChain+Cb        :  1206 atoms
  7 MainChain+H         :  1198 atoms
  8 SideChain           :  2670 atoms
  9 SideChain-H         :  1006 atoms
 10 Prot-Masses         :  3868 atoms
 11 Non-Protein         : 34342 atoms
 12 LIG                 :    46 atoms
 13 SOL                 : 34212 atoms
 14 Na                  :    48 atoms
 15 Cl                  :    36 atoms
 16 Other               : 34342 atoms

 nr : group       !   'name' nr name   'splitch' nr    Enter: list groups
 'a': atom        &   'del' nr         'splitres' nr   'l': list residues
 't': atom type   |   'keep' nr        'splitat' nr    'h': help
 'r': residue         'res' nr         'chain' char
 "name": group        'case': case sensitive           'q': save and quit

>
Copied index group 0 'System'

Syntax error: "q "

gcq#89: "This Doesn't Suck, It's a Black Hole !" (K.A. Feenstra)

g_dist -f md.gro -s md.tpr -n index.ndx < protein_lig.txt
                         :-)  G  R  O  M  A  C  S  (-:

                      GROup of MAchos and Cynical Suckers

                            :-)  VERSION 4.0.5  (-:


      Written by David van der Spoel, Erik Lindahl, Berk Hess, and others.
       Copyright (c) 1991-2000, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
             Copyright (c) 2001-2008, The GROMACS development team,
            check out http://www.gromacs.org for more information.

         This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
          modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
         as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
             of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

                                :-)  g_dist  (-:

Option     Filename  Type         Description
------------------------------------------------------------
  -f         md.gro  Input        Trajectory: xtc trr trj gro g96 pdb cpt
  -s         md.tpr  Input        Run input file: tpr tpb tpa
  -n      index.ndx  Input, Opt!  Index file
  -o       dist.xvg  Output, Opt. xvgr/xmgr file
 -lt   lifetime.xvg  Output, Opt. xvgr/xmgr file

Option       Type   Value   Description
------------------------------------------------------
-[no]h       bool   no      Print help info and quit
-nice        int    19      Set the nicelevel
-b           time   0       First frame (ps) to read from trajectory
-e           time   0       Last frame (ps) to read from trajectory
-dt          time   0       Only use frame when t MOD dt = first time (ps)
-[no]xvgr    bool   yes     Add specific codes (legends etc.) in the output
                            xvg files for the xmgrace program
-dist        real   0       Print all atoms in group 2 closer than dist to
                            the center of mass of group 1

Reading file md.tpr, VERSION 4.0.5 (single precision)
Group     0 (      System) has 38210 elements
Group     1 (     Protein) has  3868 elements
Group     2 (   Protein-H) has  1980 elements
Group     3 (     C-alpha) has   244 elements
Group     4 (    Backbone) has   732 elements
Group     5 (   MainChain) has   974 elements
Group     6 (MainChain+Cb) has  1206 elements
Group     7 ( MainChain+H) has  1198 elements
Group     8 (   SideChain) has  2670 elements
Group     9 ( SideChain-H) has  1006 elements
Group    10 ( Prot-Masses) has  3868 elements
Group    11 ( Non-Protein) has 34342 elements
Group    12 (         LIG) has    46 elements
Group    13 (         SOL) has 34212 elements
Group    14 (          Na) has    48 elements
Group    15 (          Cl) has    36 elements
Group    16 (       Other) has 34342 elements
Select a group: Selected 1: 'Protein'
Select a group: Selected 12: 'LIG'
Reading frames from gro file 'Protein in water', 38210 atoms.
Last frame          0 time    0.000

gcq#89: "This Doesn't Suck, It's a Black Hole !" (K.A. Feenstra)


# This file was created Tue Mar  9 13:58:58 2010
# by the following command:
# g_dist -f md.gro -s md.tpr -n index.ndx
#
# g_dist is part of G R O M A C S:
#
# GROup of MAchos and Cynical Suckers
#
@    title "Distance"
@    xaxis  label "Time (ps)"
@    yaxis  label "Distance (nm)"
@TYPE xy
@ view 0.15, 0.15, 0.75, 0.85
@ legend on
@ legend box on
@ legend loctype view
@ legend 0.78, 0.8
@ legend length 2
@ s0 legend "|d|"
@ s1 legend "d\sx\N"
@ s2 legend "d\sy\N"
@ s3 legend "d\sz\N"
   0.0000000    0.1572016   -0.1153002   -0.0301313   -0.1025198


On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Justin A. Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu> wrote:
>
>
> John Shultz wrote:
>>
>> How come time is always  0.0000000
>>
>
> You're analyzing a .gro file, so there is no time information stored.  If
> you analyze a trajectory (i.e., .xtc or .trr), then the time is saved in the
> individual frames.
>
> -Justin
>
>> On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Justin A. Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> John Shultz wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I am seeking clarification on what this output means. I believe it
>>>> says that the x axis is divided into 4 time intervals and they are
>>>> plotted against a y axis that measures total distance along all 3
>>>> dimensional coordinates.
>>>> Am I reading this correctly?
>>>>
>>> There should be no decomposition of time intervals here.  Distance is
>>> plotted continuously as a function of time.  The first column is time,
>>> then
>>> the total distance, then each of the x, y, and z components of that
>>> distance.
>>>
>>> -Justin
>>>
>>>> # This file was created Sat Jan 30 00:20:03 2010
>>>> # by the following command:
>>>> # g_dist -f md.gro -s md.tpr -n index.ndx
>>>> #
>>>> # g_dist is part of G R O M A C S:
>>>> #
>>>> # Glycine aRginine prOline Methionine Alanine Cystine Serine
>>>> #
>>>> @    title "Distance"
>>>> @    xaxis  label "Time (ps)"
>>>> @    yaxis  label "Distance (nm)"
>>>> @TYPE xy
>>>> @ view 0.15, 0.15, 0.75, 0.85
>>>> @ legend on
>>>> @ legend box on
>>>> @ legend loctype view
>>>> @ legend 0.78, 0.8
>>>> @ legend length 2
>>>> @ s0 legend "|d|"
>>>> @ s1 legend "d\sx\N"
>>>> @ s2 legend "d\sy\N"
>>>> @ s3 legend "d\sz\N"
>>>>  0.0000000    0.0619448    0.0583303    0.0099401   -0.0183282
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> --
>>> ========================================
>>>
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>>> Virginia Tech
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