[gmx-users] contacts per residue in g_mindist

[Justin Lemkul]

On 11/13/14 10:04 AM, serena leone wrote:
> Dear GMX Users,
>
> I have been trying to analyze the evolution of hydrophobic contacts
> during an unfolding simulation. To do this, I have prepared an index
> file with the hydrophobic residues in the two portions of the protein
> that I simulated and I issued g_mindist as follows:
>
> g_mindist -f prot.xtc -s prot.tpr -d 0.56 -o atm-pair_hydrophobic -on
> numcont_hydrophobic -or mindistres_hydrophobic.xvg -n protein.ndx -dt 10
> -printresname -respertime -od mindist_hydrophobic.xvg
>
> If I understood correctly, atm-pair_hydrophobic gives me the atom
> couples that are closest per frame according to their numbering in the
> topology, whereas mindistres_hydrophobic.xvg with -respertime gives me
> the evolution of the minimum distance between each residue in group 1 of
> my analysis with the COM of group 2 of my analysis. Now the two
> questions:
>
> 1) the mindistres_hydrophobic.xvg file that i open with grace has
> several data sets in it, but the legend looks something like:
>
> [...]
> @ legend length 2
> @ s0 legend "helix_hydrophobic-34-90_hydrophobic"
> # PRO9 PHE10 LEU14 GLY15 PHE17 ALA18 VAL19 ILE25
> [...]
>
> The numbering of the residues has been (i believe) taken from the
> topology when I made the index, but this numbering is wrong, the
> numbering in the structure file is exactly n+1 (i.e. PRO10 PHE11
> LEU15...). If I visually analyze the corresponding .gro file, the
> numbering is correct, coherent with the starting pdb, and most important
> it is correct in every other ndx generated for instance by g_bonds,
> index making and so on. Does anybody have any idea on why they appear
> shifted in this case?
>

Probably because arrays in the code are zero-indexed.

> 2)is there any way to extract the distance of the residue in group 1 not
> from the COM of group 2, but from individual residues in it? in other
> words, a sort of hbonds-style contact map with an index?
>

g_dist can do this.

-Justin

> As a minor issue, I assume that PRO9 etc. are the data series names, but
> they do not automatically appear on the plot (in grace). Although I can
> fix this by hand, it might become pretty tedious if the groups become
> bigger. Any hint on how to solve it?
>
> Thanks everybody and have a great day,
> Serena
>

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Justin A. Lemkul, Ph.D.
Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow

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