On Fri, Dec 13, 2013, Sangeetha B wrote:
>
> I have extracted a 2D RMSD matrix but it is not helpful to understand the
> conformational clustering.
>
> The method described by Levitt, M in 1983 (J. Mol. Biol. 168, 621-657)
> explains a method of RMSD analysis where after projection into 2D space,
> the distances between a set of points in two-dimensional plane explains the
> RMS deviations between a set of protein structures. This method can easily
> identify a transition state which is generally the first structure exiting
> the first cluster.
>
> I would like to generate a plot of this nature so that a transition state
> can be easily identified.
This is not in principle a very difficult calculation: you need to construct
and diagonalize the metric matrix, then reconstruct points using only the
largest two eigenvalue/eigenvector pairs. That gives you a two-dimensional
vector for each structure, which is then plotted and analyzed.
That said, I don't know of anything in Amber that does this analysis. It
might make sense to go onto Dan's (already extensive!) to-do list.
...dac
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