[gmx-users] calculation of energy of individual water molecules in gromacs

[Justin Lemkul]

On 5/30/17 1:52 AM, Saumyak Mukherjee wrote:
> Dear users,
> 
> I need to calculate the energy of individual water molecules in a 1 nm
> shell around protein. That is, there will be n number of energy terms in
> each time frame if there are n number of water molecules in the said
> hydration shell at that time step. Is there a way to do it in GROMACS?
> 

The internal energy of a water molecule?  If you're using standard rigid waters, 
that quantity is by definition zero.  Interaction energy is another matter and 
can be calculated using energygrps.  Whether or not that's useful depends on the 
force field, as I just commented in another thread.

-Justin

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