[gmx-users] Fwd: Probability of number of atomic contacts

[Mahsa]

Thank you very much for your comments!

How would it be possible to get probability vs. number of contacts or
probability vs coordination number averaged across the simulations? Can it
be done directly with Gromacs tools or I need some scripts for that?

Best regards,
Mahsa

On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 7:17 PM Justin Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu> wrote:

>
>
> On 2/28/19 8:59 AM, Mahsa wrote:
> > Hi Justin,
> >
> > Could you please comment on my questions in the previous post?
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Mahsa
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> > From: Mahsa <ebadi.mahsa at gmail.com>
> > Date: Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 2:36 PM
> > Subject: Re: [gmx-users] Probability of number of atomic contacts
> > To: <gmx-users at gromacs.org>
> >
> >
> > Thank you very much, Justin!
> >
> > I tried this command:
> >
> > gmx_seq analyze -f numcont.xvg -dist num_dist.xvg
> >
> >
> > and I got a histogram. Now the number of contacts between the ion and the
> > polymer is between 160-180. I just want to be sure if I am doing this
> > analysis correct. When I use gmx mindist, from the index file I choose a
> > group of the ion (including 46 ions) and then the polymer group (all
> > polymer chains in the box).  I think maybe instead of choosing all ions,
> I
> > should only select one of them and get the number of contact with the
> > polymers but then since I have 46 of this ion in the simulation box, can
> it
> > be a good representative of the whole system? If not, what else can I do
> in
> > this case?
>
> I don't see any point in doing per-ion analysis. You already have the
> answer you want with respect to contacts between the two species.
> Choosing one ion isn't necessarily going to be representative, either.
>
> > Besides, it is mentioned in the Gromacs manual, that if we use the
> > -group option
> > a contact of an atom in another group with multiple atoms in the first
> > group is counted as one contact instead of as multiple contacts. I want
> to
> > count all contact with a polymer chain as 1 contact and check the number
> of
> > contacts with different polymer chains so by using -group and having the
> > ion as the first group and polymer as the second group from the index
> file,
> > can I get this?
>
> This option is primarily used to avoid over-counting, e.g. the
> interaction between an ion and carboxylate oxygens will not be counted
> as two contact if each ion-oxygen distance satisfies the criterion; it's
> just one.
>
> > The last question, can I do the same approach to get the distribution of
> > coordination number for the first coordination shell of ions and special
> > atoms of the polymers?
>
> You can calculate coordination number by integrating an RDF.
>
> -Justin
>
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