[gmx-users] Energy decomposition

[Justin Lemkul]

On 7/8/18 2:06 PM, Vito GENNA wrote:
> Dear GMXusers,
>
> I am writing you in the hope to find a solution to my problem.
>
> I'd love (and truly love) calculate the intramolecular energy (both bonded
> and non-bonded terms) of a DNA backbone for which I have a .xtc trajectory
> (and of course coords).
>
> What I did:
>
> 1) defined the index.ndx for each DNA strand and generated a ndx.file
> cotaining [strand-1] and [System - (strand-1)] (works fine)
>
> 2) Changed the energygrps in the mdp file to: [strand-1]  [System -
> (strand-1)] (works fine)
>
> 3) Generated a .tpr file selecting (from point 1) the .ndx of my interest
>
> 4) with mdrun with -rerun option (by using the .tpr of my interest
> generated at the previous stage) I get the .edr file [strand-1]
>
> 5) by using g_energy I only get Lennard-Jones and Coulomb terms (both short
> and long for [strand-1]:[strand-1]) while I would also include the
> bonded-terms.
>
> 6) The option ETOT, provided by g_energy, I guess does not return the E of
> the strand, rather of the overall system. Isn't it?
>
> Since I am comparing the same system in different conditions (then in
> different MD) I am looking for a strategy which would allow me to
> extrapolate all the energy terms for the backbone in a consistent fashion.
>
> Did you ever calculated something similar?
> If so, how?

You need to extract only the coordinates you want from the trajectory 
with trjconv and your index group. Then, create a matching .tpr file 
with only those atoms using convert-tpr. Then use mdrun -rerun. Whether 
or not the quantity means anything depends on how your force field was 
parametrized, but that's how you calculate it.

-Justin

> If not, any suggestion?
>
> Thanks in advance for all your comments.
>
> All the Best
>
> VG
>
> PS: Gromacs version: 5.0.4
>

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