[gmx-users] How to calculate energy after production MD

[Justin Lemkul]

On 1/4/15 6:57 PM, Mark Abraham wrote:
> Hi,
>
> You need to define an index group, use it in a new .mdp file as an energy
> group, and then follow
> http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/How-tos/Single-Point_Energy
>

But this will only give short-range nonbonded energies.  To get the "energy of 
the helix" would require extracting the helix from the original .tpr and 
trajectory, then mdrun -rerun on this subset of atoms.  Of course, that quantity 
doesn't actually mean anything...

-Justin

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