On 13/09/2011 4:14 PM, aiswarya pawar wrote:
Mark,

the command line goes like this-

g_dist -f md.xtc -s md.tpr -dist 0.5 -e 500

This command line is not using an index file. The index groups defined for the grompp that produced the .tpr are being used (which may be the default ones, depending what you did). Please copy and show the interactive input you made to g_dist after it showed the groups it knew about.


the index file has group1- a_1322 ( this is just a single atom from a protein. its in sidechain)
                          group2- a_OW ( this is water atoms)

Your output is listing the time of the frame, and the residue number, residue name, atom number, and atom name of the matching atom. Apparently a water molecule can sometimes be closer than 0.2nm, and sometimes not.

Mark


now as per the utility it should give me and output as-

t:1 1322 a 54119 OW 0.389

but am getting something different

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Mark Abraham <mark.abra...@anu.edu.au <mailto:mark.abra...@anu.edu.au>> wrote:

    On 13/09/2011 3:40 PM, aiswarya pawar wrote:

    Hi Mark,

    The -dist option says- print all the atoms in group 2 that are
    closer than a certain distance to the center of mass of group 1.
    That means it should give me the distance from OW to protein atom.

    If you choose correct groups that are correctly defined with
    respect to your trajectory and use a large enough distance cutoff.



    And when am already specifying only one atom from protein ie say
    1322. why do i get this kind of output-

    We can't tell. We don't know what your command line is, what's in
    your simulation system, the contents of your index groups, or
    which groups you've selected for which role. Clearly something is
    not working properly, and our time constraints mean that we're
    going to assume you've done something wrong, in the absence of
    evidence to the contrary.

    Mark



    t: 275  20230 SOL 62618 OW  0.341434 (nm)
    t: 275  22019 SOL 67985 OW  0.171584 (nm)
    t: 276  10768 SOL 34232 OW  0.303328 (nm)
    t: 276  20230 SOL 62618 OW  0.325176 (nm)
    t: 276  22019 SOL 67985 OW  0.187259 (nm)
    t: 277  10768 SOL 34232 OW  0.306008 (nm)
    t: 277  20230 SOL 62618 OW  0.326195 (nm)
    t: 277  22019 SOL 67985 OW  0.181089 (nm)
    t: 278  10768 SOL 34232 OW  0.274507 (nm)
    t: 278  22019 SOL 67985 OW  0.292652 (nm)
    t: 279  10618 SOL 33782 OW  0.319922 (nm)
    t: 280  10618 SOL 33782 OW  0.330082 (nm)
    t: 280  22019 SOL 67985 OW  0.330203 (nm)
    t: 281  8273 SOL 26747 OW  0.278731 (nm)
    t: 281  10618 SOL 33782 OW  0.325434 (nm)
    t: 281  11535 SOL 36533 OW  0.200327 (nm)
    t: 281  17036 SOL 53036 OW  0.343946 (nm)
    t: 282  8273 SOL 26747 OW  0.256558 (nm)
    t: 282  11535 SOL 36533 OW  0.327147 (nm)
    t: 283  8273 SOL 26747 OW  0.165061 (nm)
    t: 283  10618 SOL 33782 OW  0.306578 (nm)
    t: 283  17191 SOL 53501 OW  0.333075 (nm)
    t: 284  8273 SOL 26747 OW  0.19427 (nm)
    t: 284  10618 SOL 33782 OW  0.321927 (nm)
    t: 284  17191 SOL 53501 OW  0.30832 (nm)




    On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Mark Abraham
    <mark.abra...@anu.edu.au <mailto:mark.abra...@anu.edu.au>> wrote:

        On 13/09/2011 2:27 PM, aiswarya.pa...@gmail.com
        <mailto:aiswarya.pa...@gmail.com> wrote:
        Iam -dist option because I need the distance between two groups

        That is not what g_dist -dist does. Please read g_dist -h.


          excluding -dist gives me X,Y,Z output which I don't want.

        And other output which you do, but you have to use -o to get
        it. Read g_dist -h.


          And am not specifying an -o.

        You need to specify -o to achieve your purpose. However, as I
        said quite a while ago, there is no value in measuring the
        distance between a protein phase and a water phase if they
        are in contact...

        Mark


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        aiswarya.pa...@gmail.com  <mailto:aiswarya.pa...@gmail.com>  wrote:
        Even if I specify an atom say 1277 atom number to find distance against 
the OW atoms. I get the same result of SOL-OW distance. Is it a bug cause even 
after specifying one atom from a protein why doesn't it give me the result for 
the SOL.


        As was suggested several messages ago, please do NOT combine -o and 
-dist.  If
        you want to measure a distance, use -o.  If you want g_dist to print a 
list of
        atoms that satisfy some given criteria, use -dist, but not together.

        -Justin

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        aiswarya pawar wrote:
        hi Justin,

        As far i referred the OW,HW1 etc are water atoms so how can it be
        distance between the SOL protein atoms, instead it is SOL water atoms.

        The printed distance indicates that there is a certain water molecule 
that is
        just over 2 hydrogen bonding lengths away from your protein's backbone. 
 Sounds
        normal to me.

        -Justin

        Thanks

        On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Justin A. Lemkul<jalem...@vt.edu  
<mailto:jalem...@vt.edu>
        <mailto:jalem...@vt.edu>>  wrote:



             aiswarya pawar wrote:

                 Hi Users,

                 Am using g_dist to find the distance between water and protein.
                 but my output has the values of SOL-water distance.

                 t: 1  136 SOL 2336 OW  0.772373 (nm)


             This is not a water-water distance, it is the output of the -dist
             option telling you that water molecule 136 has its OW atom at
             0.7723273 nm from whatever your reference group is.

             -Justin

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