[gmx-users] using g_angle

francesca vitalini francesca.vitalini11 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 29 16:24:01 CET 2012


Thank you. It worked now.
Best
Francesca



2012/2/29 Mark Abraham <Mark.Abraham at anu.edu.au>:
> On 1/03/2012 1:00 AM, francesca vitalini wrote:
>>
>> Hi Mark,
>> Thanks for your answer. What I'm trying to do is calculate the value
>> in degrees of  the angles listed in my index file. If my index file
>> looks like
>> [ dihedral 1 ]
>> 2  7  9  10
>> [ dihedral 2 ]
>> 10  16  18  19
>
>
> I said in my last email that my suggestion of a separate group group for
> each angle was wrong and that your original index file like
>
>
> [ dihedrals ]
> 2 5 9 10
> 10 15 18 19
> .....
>
> was fine. Please try that with g_angle -ov -all. I get output like
>
> # This file was created Mon Feb 20 12:32:15 2012
>
> # by the following command:
> # g_angle -f 005_5 -type dihedral -all -ov 005_5_angles.xvg -n
> ../1oei_sim_backbone_angle.ndx
> #
> # g_angle is part of G R O M A C S:
> #
> # GRoups of Organic Molecules in ACtion for Science
> #
> @    title "Average Angle: Backbone_dihedral_angles"
> @    xaxis  label "Time (ps)"
> @    yaxis  label "Angle (degrees)"
> @TYPE xy
> 245757.00000    19.937     1.923   -61.394   -74.236    27.453    -2.719
>  -179.194    96.730   -27.468    43.121    -8.608    -0.480    -0.764
> 0.001  -179.750   170.982   157.245  -174.933    37.563    40.854    93.329
>    19.823   169.543   129.371    40.443  -149.558     8.198    43.427
> 100.089    86.565   154.344   171.804    52.401  -158.571    27.166
>  -143.253    39.944     6.985   178.488   179.865    -0.432   179.965
>  -179.957   179.499  -179.774  -179.788   107.176   151.312   -37.770
> 245762.00000    22.309    -1.821   -60.416   -73.830   -21.904    -2.231
>  -179.111    96.693  -114.414    40.600  -154.543     0.922    -2.143
> 0.932   179.704   -71.467   147.204   171.571    52.328    39.069    70.499
>     3.113   179.355    91.086    43.155   133.656   -22.505    23.643
> 104.997   105.160   151.335  -176.456   176.378 23.691     6.447  -102.512
>  43.837    33.328  -179.572  -179.286     1.288   179.801   179.207
>  -179.029  -178.575   179.950   151.692   164.967    -4.967
> 245763.00000    36.760    -1.567   -59.734   -74.259   -88.956     9.191
> 175.880    91.328  -106.962    38.466  -159.767    -0.092     1.363
>  -0.665  -179.743   -63.435   159.398   168.167    42.926    40.201
>  86.058    15.792   171.260   108.564    37.481   148.734   -19.163
>  41.603    95.716   100.927   159.081   177.076   170.625    18.814
>  11.879  -108.608    42.251    31.301  -179.193  -179.047     0.401
>  -179.484   179.431   179.957   179.578   179.770   143.532   159.744
>  -1.341
>
>
> Mark
>
>
>> then if I use the command line
>>
>> g_angle -f aa.gro -s aa.tpr -n angles_prova.ndx -ov angav_prova3.xvg
>> -all -type dihedral
>> or the same with the flag -od,
>> what I get is an interactive menu where I have to choose the group and
>> if I choose one then I obtain an output file which looks like
>> # This file was created Wed Feb 29 14:54:55 2012
>> # by the following command:
>> # /home/cocktail/vitalini/gromacs_special/bin/g_angle -f aa.gro -s
>> aa.tpr -n angles_prova.ndx -od angav_prova3.xvg -all -type dihedral
>> #
>> # /home/cocktail/vitalini/gromacs_special/bin/g_angle is part of G R O M A
>> C S:
>> #
>> # Great Red Oystrich Makes All Chemists Sane
>> #
>> @    title "Dihedral Distribution: dihedral"
>> @    xaxis  label "Degrees"
>> @    yaxis  label ""
>> @TYPE xy
>> @    subtitle "average angle: -6192.3\So\N"
>>       -109    0.000000
>>       -108    1.000000
>>       -107    0.000000
>>
>> Which does what I'm looking for but this means that I'll need a file
>> for each angle. Is there a faster way to get a file that has like two
>> columns, one for the dihedral and another one for the angles?
>> Thanks
>> Francesca
>>
>> 2012/2/29 Mark Abraham<Mark.Abraham at anu.edu.au>:
>>>
>>> On 29/02/2012 11:54 PM, francesca vitalini wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 2012/2/29 Mark Abraham<Mark.Abraham at anu.edu.au>:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 29/02/2012 9:39 PM, francesca vitalini wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>> I'm trying to use g_angle to calculate a list of dihedrals that I have
>>>>>> into an hand made index file (angles.ndx), which looks like
>>>>>> [ dihedrals ]
>>>>>> 2 5 9 10
>>>>>> 10 15 18 19
>>>>>> .....
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> mk_angndx might have helped.
>>>>
>>>> Actually mk_angndx gies me the angles for phi and psi while instead I
>>>> need omega and they are put in  a strange format like in groups of 8
>>>> instead of 4.
>>>
>>>
>>> Whitespace inside the index group probably doesn't matter.
>>>
>>>
>>>>>> However it produces a .xvg file where it gives me for each angle in
>>>>>> degrees its probability. However, what I want is instead to know the
>>>>>> value in degrees of each angle in the ndx file. Do you have any
>>>>>> suggestions apart from building an index file for each angle?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> g_angle -ov -all with each angle in its own group.
>>>>
>>>> What do you mean with each angle in its own group? something like
>>>> [dihedrals]
>>>> 2 5 9 10
>>>> [dihedrals]
>>>> 10 13 16 18
>>>> ...
>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, but with unique group names - but it turns out I was wrong to
>>> suggest
>>> that. Your index file above is fine.
>>>
>>>
>>>> Isn't it equivalent to build differend index files?
>>>> anyway the -ov flag gives the average over time, but I need the angles
>>>> just at one time, that is why I was using -od but it just plots the
>>>> distribution of all angles together.
>>>> Any help?
>>>
>>>
>>> Which part of the output of g_angle -ov **-all** doesn't suit you?
>>>
>>> Mark
>>>
>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>>> Mark
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Francesca Vitalini

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Department of Mathematics and Informatics, FU-Berlin
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