[gmx-users] Measuring distances between residues and visualising the results

[Justin Lemkul]

On 8/19/14, 11:03 AM, Nikolaos Michelarakis wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to measure the distances between certain residues over the
> course of my simulation. I have created an index with these residues. So
> far i have tried using gmx mdmat but since there are only five residues the
> resulting map consists of 25 large boxes, of different shades, which is not
> very useful. I have also tried using gmx distance but I am not sure if I am
> using it correctly. When it prompts me to select the groups do I choose the
> index group twice?
>

If you do that, you'll just get zeroes - the distance between a group an itself.

> Any suggestions on how to better visualize the gmx_mdmat results or use gmx
> distance accurately?
>

See gmx distance syntax and usage here:

http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/How-tos/Tool_Changes_for_5.0#g_dist

-Justin

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