[AMBER] How to interpret ptraj clustering results

From: Catein Catherine <askamber23.hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 16:02:10 +0800

Dear All,

 

I did a MD for my system for 7ns. I check the rmsd and ETOT are almost constant after 2 ns. So, take 2to7ns as the productive period after equilibrium.

 

I did a clustering analysis on the productive MD stimulations trajectory, i.e. 2 to 7 ns.

 

The input files is as follows:

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trajin ../xxx.mdcrd.gz

rsm first :1-45.CA,:46-500.C1'

cluster out xxx representative pdb \

average pdb means clusters 5 rms .CA,C1'

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After all 5 clusters's average structures were obtained, I also find a xxx.txt file

 

I found

Cluster 0: has 12 points, occurence 0.120, average-distance-to-centroid is 0.455100

Cluster 1: has 12 points, occurence 0.120, average-distance-to-centroid is 0.484351

Cluster 2: has 25 points, occurence 0.250, average-distance-to-centroid is 0.520670

Cluster 3: has 29 points, occurence 0.290, average-distance-to-centroid is 0.536362

Cluster 4: has 22 points, occurence 0.220, average-distance-to-centroid is 0.489196

    

My question is if I want to check the statistical criteria such as sum of squares regression / total sum of squares. What should I do?

 

How can I tell if the cluster0...cluster4 are similar or not?

 

Based on the results that I got so far, should I used any one of the cluster's average structure to draw conclusions? It seems to me that no predominant cluster were found, all the occurences is 0.1 to 0.2. Should I expect to see only one cluster have the highest occurences if the system is equilibrated.

 

Any golden rule regarding on when to use cluster's average structure and when to use the average structure from production period?

 

Best regards,

Cat
                                               
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