[gmx-users] the "-dist" flag of g_hbond tool

CHEN Pan evan.pan.chen at gmail.com
Fri May 24 15:12:09 CEST 2013


Yes. I have looked at it already. I may need to spend time to understand
it.

By the way, in the source code, it seems some part are written for
calculating hydrogen bonding energy, but I haven't see any "flag command"
could give a output of "hydrogen bonding energy" file. Is it still under
development?


2013/5/24 Erik Marklund <erikm at xray.bmc.uu.se>

> Hm. That is peculiar. The source code has the answer of course. I can have
> a look next week to see why that is.
>
> Erik
>
> On 24 May 2013, at 14:11, CHEN Pan <evan.pan.chen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have 512 donors and 1024 acceptors.
> >
> > I have just tested "g_hbond" with my standard crystal structure, which I
> > should get 512 hydrogen bonds. And the output "hbnum.xvg" does show 512
> > hydrogen bonds, which is correct. But the "hbdist.xvg" file still shows
> > that the summation of population is 200.
> >
> >
> > 2013/5/24 Erik Marklund <erikm at xray.bmc.uu.se>
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> See below
> >>
> >> On 24 May 2013, at 11:45, CHEN Pan <evan.pan.chen at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Dear Gromacs users,
> >>>
> >>> I am confused about the g_hbond tools.
> >>>
> >>> 1) When I use "-dist" to get the distribution of hydrogen bonding
> >> distance,
> >>> I found that the summation of the population is always 200 (the
> y-column
> >>> below). I am not sure if it's was done with normalization or not, if
> yes,
> >>> the summation should be one, if no, then the summation should equals to
> >> the
> >>> total number of the hydrogen bonds, but here the "hbnum.xvg" shows me I
> >>> have 440 hydrogen bonds. Why here is always 200, not matter what types
> of
> >>> hydrogen bonds.
> >>
> >> How many donors do you have, and how many acceptors?
> >>
> >>>
> >>> 2) In my system, there are several different types of hydrogen bonds,
> >> such
> >>> as intra-chain and inter-chain or intra-sheet and inter-sheet hydrogen
> >>> bonds. Is there any "smart" way to separately calculate those hydrogen
> >>> bonds? By using the "index.ndx" file, I could separate the intra-chain
> >>> hydrogen bonds, then I can get the inter-chain ones using the total one
> >>> minus the intra-chain one. It may be possible to do the same for the
> >>> intra-sheet and the inter-sheet. However, this strategy seems
> "complex".
> >>> Did anybody have experience or ideas for this problem?
> >>>
> >>> Pan
> >>>
> >>> # This file was created Fri May 24 11:06:01 2013
> >>> # by the following command:
> >>> # g_hbond -f /Users/panchen/gromacs.file/ch1-56/alpha/md-a-re.xtc -s
> >>> /Users/panchen/gromacs.file/ch1-56/alpha/md-a.tpr -n ../ful.ndx -b
> 11000
> >> -e
> >>> 16000 -a 30 -r 0.35 -da -num -hbn -ang -dist -g
> >>> #
> >>> # g_hbond is part of G R O M A C S:
> >>> #
> >>> # Gromacs Runs One Microsecond At Cannonball Speeds
> >>> #
> >>> @    title "Hydrogen Bond Distribution"
> >>> @    xaxis  label "Hydrogen - Acceptor Distance (nm)"
> >>> @    yaxis  label ""
> >>> @TYPE xy
> >>>   0.0025          0
> >>>   0.0075          0
> >>>   0.0125          0
> >>>   0.0175          0
> >>>   0.0225          0
> >>>   0.0275          0
> >>>   0.0325          0
> >>>   0.0375          0
> >>>   0.0425          0
> >>>   0.0475          0
> >>>   0.0525          0
> >>>   0.0575          0
> >>>   0.0625          0
> >>>   0.0675          0
> >>>   0.0725          0
> >>>   0.0775          0
> >>>   0.0825          0
> >>>   0.0875          0
> >>>   0.0925          0
> >>>   0.0975          0
> >>>   0.1025          0
> >>>   0.1075          0
> >>>   0.1125          0
> >>>   0.1175          0
> >>>   0.1225          0
> >>>   0.1275          0
> >>>   0.1325          0
> >>>   0.1375          0
> >>>   0.1425          0
> >>>   0.1475          0
> >>>   0.1525          0
> >>>   0.1575          0
> >>>   0.1625          0
> >>>   0.1675          0
> >>>   0.1725          0
> >>>   0.1775          0
> >>>   0.1825          0
> >>>   0.1875          0
> >>>   0.1925          0
> >>>   0.1975          0
> >>>   0.2025          0
> >>>   0.2075          0
> >>>   0.2125          0
> >>>   0.2175          0
> >>>   0.2225          0
> >>>   0.2275          0
> >>>   0.2325 0.00538632
> >>>   0.2375   0.125501
> >>>   0.2425    1.23562
> >>>   0.2475    6.08295
> >>>   0.2525    16.4279
> >>>   0.2575    28.6597
> >>>   0.2625    36.0576
> >>>   0.2675     35.154
> >>>   0.2725    28.1539
> >>>   0.2775    19.8073
> >>>   0.2825    12.4602
> >>>   0.2875    7.23832
> >>>   0.2925    4.06577
> >>>   0.2975    2.15794
> >>>   0.3025    1.14423
> >>>   0.3075   0.588366
> >>>   0.3125   0.310611
> >>>   0.3175   0.163206
> >>>   0.3225  0.0772039
> >>>   0.3275  0.0411156
> >>>   0.3325  0.0210066
> >>>   0.3375  0.0113113
> >>>   0.3425 0.00574541
> >>>   0.3475 0.00502723
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