[gmx-users] how to make a index file

[Justin Lemkul]

On 9/11/13 11:33 PM, aixintiankong wrote:
> i want to analyze the change of secondary structure of the mainchian frome
> residue 20 to residue 60. so i want to make a index file that only contain
> the maninchian+H from residue 20 to residue 60.  i have inputed the command "
> make_ndx -f em.pdb -o index.ndx", but i don't kown how to do next . what
> should i input ? thank you very much!
>

A good place to start is to type "help" at the prompt to see full syntax 
information and examples.  In this case, creating the group is very easy:

7 & r 20-60

This tells make_ndx to merge (using &) the common parts of group 7 (MainChain+H) 
and residues 20-60.

-Justin

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