[gmx-users] How to calculate distance using gromacs?

[Justin Lemkul]

On 2/15/19 8:16 AM, Edjan Silva wrote:
> Dear,
>
> I performed a 100 ns simulation with B-DNA.
> I want to know which gromacs option I can calculate the distance between
> two DNA residues (guanine 5 and ADENIN 6, for example) during the 100 ns of
> simulation.

Create an index group for each base/nucleotide and use gmx distance:

gmx distance -s -f -select 'com of group "Gua5" plus com of group "Ade6"'

Substitute in whatever file names and group names are appropriate.

-Justin

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