[gmx-users] Thickness

[Justin A. Lemkul]

afsaneh maleki wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I used bilayer that consisted of 128 DOPC lipids as DOPC128.pdb as the 
> primary bilayer and insert protein in bilayer  with Inflategro program. 
> when i expanded  the bilayer, two DOPC molecules  exited from box. i 
> simulated this system and obtained the thickness of bilayer with 
> GrigMAT_MD. i want to subtract the thickness of pure bilayer from the 
> bilayer that contain the protein.
> 
> would one please elaborate step by step how to subtract the thickness of 
> the pure bilayer( 128 DOPC) from the bilayer (126 DOPC) that contains 
> the protein to get two-dimensional maps of ∆Z that indicate deviation 
> from the thickness of pure bilayer ?
> 

Simply subtract the distances from the output of GridMAT-MD.  The output is just 
a raw matrix of distances at each grid point, so write a script that will run 
through the output and subtract whatever is the appropriate thickness value from 
those numbers.

-Justin

> Thanks in advance,
> Afsaneh
> 
>    
> 

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Justin A. Lemkul
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ICTAS Doctoral Scholar
MILES-IGERT Trainee
Department of Biochemistry
Virginia Tech
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