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From: Claire Zerafa
To: amber.scripps.edu
Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 1:11 AM
Subject: pca with ptraj
Dear all,
I am trying to use pca with amber for the first time. Essentially, I have a series of dynamics .mdcrd files which I want to work with in order to evaluate the most important motions of a protein molecule- in my case the androgen receptor.
I was thinking of using a script as follows
trajin .mdcrd1
trajin .mdcrd 2
reference avg.pdb
rms reference out avg_rms
matrix covar name cvmat
analyse matrix cvmat out top10 vecs 10
go
Should I use a pdb file that I generated in antechamber after minimisation as a reference pdb file , and is the use of a reference file mandatory- i seem to think not?
I am not sure what the rms reference out avg_rms achieves-?
does matrix covar name cvmat create a covariance matrix for the pca calculation of any name I wish to designate?
and then i guess that analyse matrix cvmat out top10 vecs 10 will calculate the 10 principal components (vectors) from the matrix I designated above
Then, I am not sure- will i get rms fluctuations if i set a script such as the one below, assuming that the fluct files will be the result of running the script above?
trajin .mdcrd
analyse modes fluct file top10 beg 1 end 1 out flct1
analyse modes fluct file top10 beg 2 end 2 out flct2
analyse modes fluct file top10 beg 3 end 3 out flct3
projection modes top10 out proj10 beg 1 end 10
go
i would really like to understand what beg 1 end 1 out flct 1 achieves, for example..
then what would the command to get it to go be please?
also is it wise to work with a stripped protein- of water that is- i guess that would be sensible- this could be achieved by stripping the waters from the average pdb file?
i know this probably sounds confused. these are all questions that came to mind after reading the manual
thanks
claire
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