[gmx-users] Trouble calculating MSD after removing COM for upper and lower leaflets

[Justin Lemkul]

On 11/9/13 5:24 AM, rajat desikan wrote:
> Hi All,
> I have a few older membrane simulations for which the COM for the upper and
> lower leaflets were not removed in the course of the simulations. These are
> pretty long simulations exceeding 300 ns.
> I have trouble with post-processing of the trajectory.
> To remove the COM of the upper and lower leaflets separately, I executed
> the following series of commands (shown for upper only):
>
> Selecting upper leaflet:
> g_select -s .tpr -on upper_P8.ndx -select 'resname DPPC and name P8 and
> res_com z>4.3'
> trjconv -f .gro -s .gro -n upper_P8.ndx -o test_u_P8.pdb  .........Testing
> selection, everthing ok
>
> Trajectory:
> trjconv -f .xtc -s .tpr -n upper_P8.ndx -o upperP8_center_pbcnojump.xtc
> -center -b 20000 -pbc nojump
>
> MSD:
> g_msd -f upperP8_center_pbcnojump.xtc -s .tpr -o msd_dppc_x_u.xvg  -type x
> -n upper_P8.ndx
>

You probably want the -lateral option as well.

> Select a group to calculate mean squared displacement for:
> Group     0 (resname_DPPC_and_name_P8_and_res_com_z>4.3_0.000) has   192
> elements

Does the fact that there are 192 identified P8 atoms match your expectations for 
this membrane?

-Justin

> There is one group in the index
> Reading frame      60 time 20600.000   Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
> Any ideas? Is there anything wrong with my workflow?
>
> Thanks.
>

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