Re: [AMBER] PCA analysis: the first vector is the movement of whole molecule.

From: Hannes Loeffler <hannes.loeffler.stfc.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:52:48 +0100

On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 18:37 +0800, Catein Catherine wrote:
> I have did a PCA analysis, the first vector did not involve movement
> of a sub-domain of the protein, but the rotate/movement of the whole
> protein. While the 2nd and forward vector involve the movement of
> sub-domain. Is it normal results to find the whole molecule
> movement as the first PCA vector? Should I neglect the first PCA
> result in this case?


Are you suggesting to ignore a results because it doesn't meet your
expectations? Are you confident that you have simulated long enough?


> I have used rms first * in the ptraj run already. Did I miss any
> important things or the result is just normal?

The point of initial fitting is to remove rotations and translations.
What does the mask "*" refer to?


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