AMBER Archive (2007)

Subject: Re: AMBER: rmsd calculation in ptraj

From: Carlos Simmerling (carlos.simmerling_at_gmail.com)
Date: Sat Mar 10 2007 - 08:26:34 CST


it would help if you show us the real ptraj input.
in particular, you aren't really saying":mask" for the mask, are you?

On 3/10/07, gurpreet singh <gps.iitm_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> hello amber users
>
> i m using ptraj module of amber9 to calculate the rmsd( backbone only) over
> the whole trajectory of the simulation taking the crystal structure as the
> reference and i m getting values in the range of 35 to 38 although there is
> no significant change in the structure during the simulation. To verify
> the results i calculated the rmsd of the individual structure using VMD and
> their the rmsd is coming fine as expected.
>
> the command which i used in ptraj was:
> strip :WAT
> reference my crystal structure.pdb
> rms reference out rmsbackbone.dat :mask
>
> if the problem is in the input then please tell me the suitable
> corrections i need to make and if not suggest some other ways by which i
> can rectify the problem
>
> thanks
>
>
>
> Gurpreet Singh
> MS
> DEPT OF BIOTECHNOLOGY
> IIT MADRAS
> INDIA
>
>
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