> is there any routine to calculate the minimum distance between two images of
> the solute during an MD trajectory? I'm using a truncated octahedron box, and
> would like to check whether the protein in the box is interacting with its
> image(s).
ptraj will do this automatically with the distance command (i.e. report
the shortest "imaged" distance unless the "noimage" keyword is specified.
This works for calculating a specific/single distance (between atoms or
center of masses of groups of atoms).
This doesn't easily help you determine if the two images are interacting
since if the molecule is rotating you do not know which parts may
interact.
The hbond facility may be a more general (but expensive) way of
determining it, however at present (without a minor code modification in
the call to calculateDistance2 in transformHBond in actions.c), it
does not calculate the minimum image distance.
An alternative method is to use the image command to shift
to adjacent boxes/unit cells; i.e. you could build a set of PDB files
of the original structure plus its shifted images +/- 1.0 unit cells and
then view all of these...
trajin mdcrd
center .CA mass origin
image origin center xoffset 1 yoffset 0 zoffset 0
average pdb avg_x1y0z0.pdb .CA
then run again with xoffset -1, yoffset = 0, etc. and all possible
combinations (running ptraj for each separate input). This can provide a
means of "seeing" all the interactions by viewing all the pdbs. [A future
modification to trajout may be to allow dumping multiple images
simultaneously.]
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