[gmx-users] Problems with trajectories

[rajat desikan]

Hi Steve,
Did you try a plain -fit rot+trans in trjconv. That should remove both com
translation as well as rotation. Select the 'protein' group for the least
squares fit.


On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 1:09 AM, Steve Seibold <stevesei at ymail.com> wrote:

> I REALLY need some help here. I have tried for several days now and looked
> on line to fix the situation. My protein moves around and goes outside the
> simulation waterbox and my Zinc ions also frequently have bonds to protein
> of 40 angstroms are so.
>
> Here is one of the combinations I have tried so far to remove
> translational motion of protein and keep it in the center of the box:
>
> trajconv  -f pr13.trr ( traj. file containing the last 8 ps) -s pr1.tpr
> (containing the first pdb structure before any MD, but with waters etc)
> -pbc atoms (place all atoms into center of box) -center -boxcenter tric -o
> protein13.trr
>
> This  results in protein no longer separating into parts (pieces), but
> protein moves, still all over the box and outside of the box..and Zincs
> still have long bonds...
>
>
> Then, I use 'fit' as follows in an attempt to do a least squares fit of
> all trajectories (positions) back onto initial structure which is in center
> of box.....
>
>
> trajconv -s pr1.tpr -f protein13.trr (using the output from above) -fit
> progressive -o protein13A.trr
>
> This didn't help at all..
>
> I am really at a loss here on how to deal with this and could use some
> help..
>
> Steve
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-- 
Rajat Desikan (Ph.D Scholar)
Prof. K. Ganapathy Ayappa's Lab (no 13),
Dept. of Chemical Engineering,
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore