ram bio wrote:
Dear Justin,

Thanks for the suggestion and advice.
As i have used a modelled protein and want to obtain the lowest energy
configuration of the protein by doing dynamics, i want to collect the
structure (coordinates in pdb) representing average of all the
frames/configurations produced in MD and also the lowest energy
configuration structure (coordinates in PDB) produced during the
simulation, which can be used for docking. Please help how to obtain
the average structure as well as the lowest energy configuration
structure.


Average structures are not always meaningful (or even physically-relevant):

http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/Terminology/Average_Structure

You can get average structures from, i.e. g_cluster -cl, if you want. As for the lowest energy structure, analyze potential energy, and dump out the frame corresponding to the lowest point. Hopefully you saved coordinates and energies at the same interval :) The potential energy will correspond to that of the system, but hopefully it should give some indication of the lowest energy configuration. I don't know anything about your system, but it will also depend on how much the energy fluctuates as to how relevant this structure might be, and how different it might be from an "average."

If your structure comes from some model you built, realize that 1 ns is an exceptionally short time frame, especially given the capabilities of modern hardware and the speed of the GROMACS code. You may want to consider running a bit longer to ensure that you really have a stable system.

-Justin

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Justin A. Lemkul
Ph.D. Candidate
ICTAS Doctoral Scholar
Department of Biochemistry
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA
jalemkul[at]vt.edu | (540) 231-9080
http://www.bevanlab.biochem.vt.edu/Pages/Personal/justin

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