[gmx-users] Calculation of nematic order parameter using gromacs

2017-05-30 Thread nidhi sorout
Dear All, I want to calculate the nematic order parameter (p2) at each time step. Is it possible to do this with "gmx order"? If not than please suggest the right way. Thank you, Nidhi -- Gromacs Users mailing list * Please search the archive at http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists/GM

Re: [gmx-users] Calculation of nematic order parameter using gromacs

2017-05-30 Thread Antonio Baptista
Hi Nidhi, If I remember correctly (and your use of "p2" suggests so), that should be the ensemble average of the 2nd-order Legendre polynomial of the angle between the molecular axis and the membrane normal, right? Although the order parameter computed by "gmx order" uses that same definitio

Re: [gmx-users] Calculation of nematic order parameter using gromacs

2017-06-02 Thread nidhi sorout
Hello, Thank you Antonio.. But my angle of interest is the angle between the molecular axis of protein and the director. I am not able to understand here, from where I can choose this 'director'? Nidhi On 30 May 2017 8:55 p.m., "Antonio Baptista" wrote: > Hi Nidhi, > > If I remember correctly

Re: [gmx-users] Calculation of nematic order parameter using gromacs

2017-06-02 Thread Antonio Baptista
On Sat, 3 Jun 2017, nidhi sorout wrote: Hello, Thank you Antonio.. But my angle of interest is the angle between the molecular axis of protein and the director. I am not able to understand here, from where I can choose this 'director'? In your case, what does 'director' mean exactly? Nidh

Re: [gmx-users] Calculation of nematic order parameter using gromacs

2017-06-02 Thread André Farias de Moura
Hi Nidhi, In short: you are using a general-purpose software, so it does not have tools for all specific applications any user might be interested in. Either you have to hack/adapt existing analysis tools or you have to write your own tools. That being said: the director is a rather arbitrary dir

Re: [gmx-users] Calculation of nematic order parameter using gromacs

2017-06-02 Thread nidhi sorout
In my case for second order parameter I need the angle between the unit vector linking N- and C-termini of the ith peptide and the d (the director) is a unit vector defining the preferred direction of alignment. These vectors are not clear to me.. please suggest something. Nidhi On Sat, Jun 3

Re: [gmx-users] Calculation of nematic order parameter using gromacs

2017-06-03 Thread André Farias de Moura
Nidhi, you need some background reading on the specifics of your problem/system (including order parameters for liquid crystals and other orderly systems) before you can do a meaningful modeling and that is up to you (it is your research problem, not ours) as I told you, the director makes sense

Re: [gmx-users] Calculation of nematic order parameter using gromacs

2017-06-03 Thread nidhi sorout
Thank you all.. I am a newly research scholar that's why taking some time in understanding :) I will try again.. Nidhi On 3 Jun 2017 7:49 p.m., "André Farias de Moura" wrote: > Nidhi, > > you need some background reading on the specifics of your problem/system > (including order parameters for