On 2013-05-31 15:59, Davide Mercadante wrote:
Dear gmx users,
I am writing to ask why I am getting a dihedral autocorrelation function
(ACF) with negative values. I am trying to calculate the ACF using
g_angle (gromacs 4.5.5) with the following set of flags:
g_angle -f trajectory.xtc -type dihedral -oc acf.xvg -od angdist.xvg -n
angle.ndx
The ACF starts from 1 as expected and slowly drops (sometimes) to values
below 0 (approx. -0.2). Even when I use the flag -normalize (which I
would expect normalizes the ACF between 0 and 1) the output is identical.
Can you please help me to figure out why this happens?
Any help will be very much appreciated.
Thank you in advance.
Cheers,
David
Because the angle between the two planes can become 180 in which case
the dot product is negative. In the long run it should go to zero.
It is described in D. van der Spoel and H.J.C. Berendsen: Molecular
dynamics simulations of Leu-Enkephalin in water and DMSO Biophys. J. 72
pp. 2032-2041 (1997)
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