[gmx-users] DSSP secondary structure

[Justin Lemkul]

On 2/15/16 3:26 PM, mohammad r wrote:
> Thank you Justin,
>   I did it by using xpm2ps and ps2pdf commands. Now I want to ask, is there any way to calculate the percentage of a-helical structure of a protein during simulation? Indeed DSSP visualize it but I want to calculate it exactly.

It should be at the end of the scount.xvg file.

-Justin

> Thanks, Mohammad.
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>      On Monday, February 15, 2016 6:31 PM, Justin Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu> wrote:
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> On 2/15/16 1:31 AM, mohammad r wrote:
>> I changed and reduced the ratio but the xpm file was not changed at all.
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> Unfortunately there's not much I can tell you here because this is rather
> cryptic.  It's illogical to get the same output with different input.  You can
> calculate exactly what values to use based on the number of residues in the
> protein (y-axis) and number of frames (x-axis).  Then scale xbox accordingly to
> fit some nicely shaped rectangle of defined proportions.
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> -Justin
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>>        On Sunday, February 14, 2016 5:05 PM, Justin Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu> wrote:
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>> On 2/14/16 1:54 AM, mohammad r wrote:
>>> Thank you Justin,
>>>
>>> I used xpm2ps command with below m2p file but the resolution was not changed.
>>> I've attached the xpm file, even the legend can't be seen.
>>> is there anyway to get the result file in pdf format?
>>>
>>> m2p file (I found it in the gromacs website):
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>>> xbox = 2.0 ; x‐size of a matrix element
>>> ybox = 2.0 ; y‐size of a matrix element
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>> You have a rectangular matrix, with the x-dimension being much longer than the
>> y-dimension.  If you set these two values to be the same, what happens to the
>> size of the rectangle?  It gets uniformly scaled.  So naturally that
>> accomplishes nothing.  What you need to do is reduce the ratio of xbox/ybox.
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>> -Justin
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