[gmx-users] index file after MD for non bonded interactions

[Justin Lemkul]

On 3/1/16 4:27 AM, Nikhil Maroli wrote:
> Dear all,
> i have generated cyclic peptide nanotube in Lipid bilayer system and input
> files for GROMACS  from charmm-gui . 50 ns MD is performed and i  would
> like to  study non bonded interactions, when i invoke gmx energy- i got 50
> options ,but none of them contain option such as
> Protein-Membrane,membrane-water,protein-water or the ring1-ring2 etc.when i
> checked in index file i have seen only three groups such as
> PROT,MEM,SOL_ION,in order to get  Interactions between the membrane protein
> and the each ring (options that i wanted ) ,if i create an index file it
> will work? as i understood -n index option not available with gmx energy
> command,should i make my index files first before doing MD? or is there any
> option that i can do for energy now, with the 50ns MD results?
>

If you want nonbonded interaction energies, you need to set appropriate 
energygrps in the .mdp file.  Generate a new .tpr with the desired groups and 
recalculate the energies with mdrun -rerun on the existing trajectory.

-Justin

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