[gmx-users] Energy per residue

[afsaneh maleki]

Dear Justin,

I want to get energy per residue not time. if i use mdrun -rerun  with
energygrps in md.mdp  then g_energy i obtain enery per time not residue.
at last, i don't understand how to get Energy per residue .




Best wishes,
Afsaneh






> afsaneh maleki wrote:
>
>> Dear gromacs users,
>>  Is there a way to get energy values (Vdw,..) per residue at the end of MD
>> prosses?
>>
>>
>
> Yes and no.  You won't be able to get, for instance, the absolute van der
> Waals energy of a residue.  That doesn't really make any sense, since vdW
> interactions take place between particles.  There may be some 1-4 type
> interactions within a residue that you could quantify, but not much else.
>
> You can decompose short-range residue-residue energies using energygrps in
> the .mdp file, and re-running the trajectory with the new .tpr file (mdrun
> -rerun), but the .edr file can quickly get out of hand in terms of disk
> usage, depending on how many groups you have (since you will then have
> essentially N^2 energy terms to write out, where N is the number of
> energygrps).
>
> -Justin
>
>
>  I would really appreciate any help.
>>
>> Afsaneh
>>
>>
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> Virginia Tech
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