[gmx-users] g_covar average.pdb calculation

[Tsjerk Wassenaar]

Hi Deniz,

The option -ref/-noref is not what you think it is. You want to use -nofit.

Cheers,

Tsjerk


On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Deniz Aydin <denizaydin at ku.edu.tr> wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> I would like to get information on how g_covar calculates the average
> structure file (average.pdb)
>
> My aim was actually to get a covariance matrix (<deltaR*deltaR>) so I
> started off by writing my own code, I use MDAnalysis package, so I give psf
> and traj files as an input and I generate the coordinates for each frame,
> and if I have 3 frames, I take the average of each coordinate element for 3
> frames. So for the 1st CA atom, I have x, y, z values for 3 frames. So I
> add
> x1, x2, x3 values and divide by the number of frames. So this gives me the
> average x coordinate of the 1st CA atom. I do the same for y and z and then
> for all CA atoms. So if x1, x2, x3 for CA1 is 49.5 49.0 and 49.4 for 3
> frames, the average x i get is 49.3. This is what I call an average
> structure.
>
> After doing this, I wanted to compare this with what g_covar gives me
> (average.pdb) but found out that the result that I get from my own
> calculations and the result I get from g_covar are very very different. The
> g_covar command that I use is the following:
>
> g_covar -f traj.xtc -s topol.tpr -ascii covar.dat -xpm covar.xpm -noref
>
> Here I use -noref because I already use trjconv on my initial trajectory to
> generate a new trajectory so I do -pbc mol and center and -fit rot+trans to
> remove translation, rotation and to fit the structure. So I thought I could
> use -nofit in g_covar to not to fit to the reference structure again.
>
> So, coming back to my question, why would g_covar give me a very different
> result than what I find with my simple code? What does g_covar do to
> calculate this average structure? I thought maybe it does some fitting or
> additional stuff to what I'm doing in my code or changes the units, that in
> the end it doesn't give me the same coordinates for the average.pdb.
>
> -----
> Deniz Aydin, BSc.
> Graduate Student
>
> Chemical & Biological Engineering
> Graduate School of Sciences and Engineering
> Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey
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