[gmx-users] Potential energy

[Justin Lemkul]

On 12/27/13, 6:00 PM, Ali Alizadeh wrote:
> Dear All users,
>
> I have a question about calculation of potential energy for an especial
> group. I know I had to
>
> define an energy group in .mdp file. I forgot to do it. I want to know can
> I extract this potential
>
> energy by post processing or not? If not this means I must perform my
> simulation again?
>

There is no .mdp option to calculate the potential energy of just a single 
group.  One can excluded nonbonded interactions between pairs of groups or 
decompose nonbonded energy between pairs of groups.

One could obtain "the potential energy of a group" by stripping out the 
coordinates of interest from the original trajectory (with trjconv), making a 
matching .tpr file (with tpbconv), then recalculating energies with mdrun 
-rerun.  Such a quantity would be useless, though.

-Justin

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