[gmx-users] Protein potential energy

[Justin Lemkul]

On 6/18/18 4:15 AM, Ming Tang wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I pulled a protein in water. In order to get the trend of the potential energy terms of the protein, I defined energygrps and reran the system. May I ask can I get the right trend of the protein potential energy terms using this approach?

No. You'd have to strip away all non-protein components from the 
trajectory, make a matching .tpr file, and use mdrun -rerun. Then you'll 
get the protein's potential energy, which also happens to be a 
meaningless quantity.

-Justin

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