[gmx-users] Clarification for the meaning of ncoords in GROMACS 5.0.4 pull code

[Justin Lemkul]

On 3/24/17 1:54 PM, Sajeewa Pemasinghe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have two molecules which are not moving in the z axis due to being
> continuous across the periodic boxes. I want to keep the distance between
> them fixed by pulling along x and y axes. So as I am pulling along x and y
> axes does my ncoords = 2 ?  By going along with this logic as long as my
> pull-geometry = distance, will the maximum number for ncoords be 3 (i.e.
> pulling along all x, y , and z axes)? I really appreciate an explanation.
>

The "pull-ncoords" option tells grompp how many biasing potentials there are, 
not anything to do with which Cartesian directions are biased.

-Justin

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