[gmx-users] rhombic dodecahedron and g_sas

[Anna Marabotti]

Dear all,
once again about this subject (I'm not sure I'll do another simulation in a
rhombic dodecahedron system...)
I used g_sas to compute solvent accessible surface area of my system. The
command was:
 
g_sas -f prot_boxdodfull_mol.xtc -s prot_boxdodfull_molrenum.gro -o
prot_boxdodfull_sas.xvg -or prot_boxdodfull_sasres
selecting 1 (protein) for calculation and for output.
 
I saw the following Warning message: non-rectangular boxes may give
erroneous results or crashes. Analysis based on vacuum simulations (with the
possibility of evaporation) will certainly crash the analysis.
 
In addition, there was another comment: No .tpr file, will not compute Delta
G of solvation. 
 
However, I tried to do my calculation.
At the start, I saw a message saying that all the atoms of my protein were
classified as hydrophobic (that is indeed a very strange behaviour; my
protein is a globular protein, and certainly not all their atoms are
hydrophobic). At the end of calculation, looking at the .xvg file with
xmgrace -nxy, I saw indeed that hydrophobic and total SASA coincide, whereas
the hydrophilic area is 0 for all the time.
 
I think this is an artifact of the non-rectangular box. Am I true? What can
I do? Do I have to convert my trajectory into a rectangular one? Do I have
to forgot to calculate SASA in these conditions? Any help will be
appreciated...
Anna
 
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Anna Marabotti, Ph.D.
Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Institute of Food Science - CNR
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