[gmx-users] centering a protofibril in a box

[Justin Lemkul]

On 11/6/14 6:13 AM, Adriana Garro wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am trying to center a protofibril in a box, but respect to its first
> monomer. (the result would be the protofibril shiftted to the botton of the
> box)
> I used
> trjconv -f protofibril.pdb -n index.ndx -center -s  protofibril.pdb -o
> test.pdb
>
> I did an index for the residues corresponding to the first monomer and that
> is which I chose as "select group for centering" but when I visualize the
> System with vmd the protofibril appears in the center of the box but as it
> was just one molecule.

You can accomplish this with either editconf -translate or trjconv -trans.  I 
don't exactly know what's going on from your description - an image here would 
be good, because the last sentence doesn't make much sense to me.

-Justin

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