[AMBER] Problem related to the correlation function

From: Sindrila Dutta banik <sindrila.duttabanik.yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2011 21:45:39 +0530 (IST)

Thanks for your kind reply as well as Sorry for resending the mail !!
 
Still my problem related to the correlation function is not solved. So I am sending the mail again.
 
I have generated a trajectory file for a protein for 1 ns. I set the time step 4 fs and I saved the coordinate after 100 steps that is 400fs.
 
Now, I want to compute the correlation function for the 'atomic fluctuation' for few residues (such as η N atom of Arg259) as well as the dipole-dipole correlation function for 'N-H' bond. 
 
So, what shall I write in the vector section for the two cases? I tried to do 'matrix'-'analyze matrix'-'analyze mode' for computing the dipole-dipole correlation function as mentioned in user manual. But I failed which I have already mentioned in a previous mail. Shall I repost the mail?
 
For my present system 'tstep=0.4' and 'tcorr=1000'. Am I wright? Is the defalt unit for 'tstep' and 'tcorr' is 'pico second'?
 
Can I give more than one input file (trajin) at a time for computing the correlation function for a particular system. Because I have 10 mdcrd files for 1ns (each for 100ps).    
 
It is not clear to me that what is meant by @5 and @6 in the vector section as described in the manual. I think it referrs atom number 5. Is it wright?  
 
With best regards
Sindrila
 
 

From: David A Case <case.biomaps.rutgers.edu>
To: Sindrila Dutta banik <sindrila.duttabanik.yahoo.com>; AMBER Mailing List <amber.ambermd.org>
Sent: Friday, 5 August 2011 12:10 AM
Subject: Re: [AMBER] Problem related to the correlation function

On Thu, Aug 04, 2011, Sindrila Dutta banik wrote:
>  
> I am computing a correlation function using the following script
>  
> trajin MD.mdcrd
> vector v0 .5 corr .6 order 2
> vector v1 .7 corr @8 order 2
> analyze timecorr vec1 v0 vec2 v1 tstep 1.0 tcorr 100.0 out v0.out
>  
> I have few enquiry such as
> (i) what the tstep mean?
> (ii) what does mean by tcorr?
Please see p. 130 of the AmberTools Users' Manual.

> (iii) For a vector as mentioned in the above script 'order 2' is
> correct?

There is no "correct" or "incorrect": it depends on what you are planning
to do with the resulting time correlation function.


> (iv) For the present calculation the value correlation
> function is very high. after a long time? is there any wrong in script
> file?

I see that you copied these inputs from the examples.  Are you sure that
you understand what things like "@5" are doing?  For most molecules, the
cross-correlation listed above would never decay very far, but I'm not sure
what you mean by "very high after a long time".  If we knew what correlation
functions you really want (and what you plan to do with them), we might be
able to offer some pointers.

....dac
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