On 5/22/15 9:19 AM, soumadwip ghosh wrote:
Hello all, I am trying to see what happens to the no. of Watson-Crick hydrogen bonds between two parallel chains of a double stranded DNA on incorporating a flat graphene sheet. The no of interchain H-bonds are supposed to decrease with time. But I am not sure how to use g_hbond in order to demonstrate this. How should I make index groups for the two chains of DNA? Should I take all the atoms into account (except backbone) and then index them like chain_A and chain_B and then analyze the hbnum.xvg file from g_hbond? Furthermore, in the hbnum.xvg file the third column represents the no. of H-bond within the distance cut-off and the 2nd one is the total no of hydrogen bonds as a function of simulation time. So, which one should I plot in this case against time?
You probably care about the actual H-bonds, not the atom pairs that are within distance but don't satisfy the angle criterion. Watson-Crick hydrogen bonding is a very straightforward definition; the index group should be straightforward. For anything else that comes up in a melted state, well, that's up to what you're seeing and what you're interested in.
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