[gmx-users] Different fluctuation after concatenation

[Justin Lemkul]

On 11/12/14 4:30 AM, neha bharti wrote:
> Hello All
>
> I am trying to perform Molecular dynamics simulation for protein ligand
> complex in popc lipid with
> charmm36 force field.
> Initially my run was of 50ns then I extended by run to 100ns.
>
> The first 50ns run is done in two phase (30ns and 20ns) using cpt file as
> there is time limit in supercomputer.
> then I concatenate both the .trr files using
>
> trjcat -f md_0_1.trr md_0_2.trr -o md.trr
>
> After that I extend my run to 75ns and concatenate trr file with 50ns file
> then again I extend the run to 100ns and perform the same concatenation
> step.
>
> the tpr file is extended using
> tpbconv -s input_md.tpr -o input_md_extended.tpr -extend 25000
>
>
> I individually saw the fluctuation of all the trr using VMD. And after that
> I also visualize the fluctuation of final concatenated file using last
> 100ns .gro using VMD. I found in my individual files the fluctuation of
> ligand is different as compare to the final one.
>
> So the concatenation of trr file is not proper what is the reason.
>

Concatenation does not change coordinates.  If there is something wrong, you 
will have to quantify it, because your description isn't very clear.

-Justin

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