[gmx-users] periodicity in msd calculation

[Justin Lemkul]

On 8/22/12 12:12 PM, Bala subramanian wrote:
> Hi justin,
> Thanks for the suggestion. I will look at the code. Meanwhile I have
> one doubt regarding the following option of the g_msd tool.
>
> “-trestart    time   10      Time between restarting points in trajectory (ps)”
> What does this -trestart indicates actually. I did a small trail run
> on a 100ps trajectory (containing 500 snapshots) with snapshots
> collected at .2ps interval. In the output file, it is printed as “#
> MSD gathered over 100 ps with 11 restarts”.
>
> Does it mean that the MSD is calculated with 11 different reference
> coordinates.
>

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-Justin

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