[AMBER] Question about ptraj hbond schematic

From: Kamali Sripathi <ksripath.umich.edu>
Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 16:58:52 -0400

Dear AMBER users,

I'm sorry if this question has been answered elsewhere.

I'm trying to understand the schematic that the latest version of ptraj
gives in its hydrogen bonding facility:

I understand that this is the key for what the symbols mean:

* Dumping schematic of time series after each h-bond, key follows:
   | . - o x * @ |
      0-5% 5-20% 20-40% 40-60% 60-80% 80-95% 95-100% occupancy*

My question is: %occupancy of what? I've used the H-bonding facility to
analyze trajectories both 100ns and 20ns long, and both times I've seen a
string of 50 symbols to the right of the output table. What would one string
represent? For example:

*| ..-.o.- .---. o.. o..................x *..@@o@|*

What does it mean to say that, for each ".", the H-bond is 95-100% occupied
for 1/50 of the trajectory? Does this mean, if I specified my cutoff
distance as 4 and my angle as 179, that the Hbond form at 1/50 of the
trajectory was at least (0.95)*4 = 3.8 Å in length and at an angle of at
least 179.95º?

Thank you all in advance,
-- 
Kamali Sripathi
Graduate Student, Medicinal Chemistry
Walter Laboratory
930 North University
Ann Arbor, MI, 48109
ksripath.umich.edu
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