[AMBER] Can I do PCA on simply a particular domain of the whole protein?

From: Yip Yew Mun <yipy0005.gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 12:38:11 +0800

Hi,

I wish to conduct PCA on a helical segment of a full protein. My script is as follows:

cat << EOF >> trajin1
trajin 10to50ns-dry.mdcrd 10001 40000
rms first :353-367.CA
matrix covar :353-367.CA name mcovar
analyze matrix mcovar out evec.pev vecs 10
go

EOF

ptraj complex_dry2.top < trajin1
#
cat << EOF >> trajin2
trajin 10to50ns-dry.mdcrd 10001 40000
rms first :353-367.CA
projection modes evec.pev out proj.ppj beg 1 end 10 :353-367.CA
go
         
EOF
       
ptraj complex_dry2.top < trajin2

However, when I visualised it using VMD, the eigenmotions look distorted. Therefore, I wish to confirm if the script above is logical. If so, the topol.pdb that I use should be the full protein instead of the segment which I did PCA on, right?

Thanks.

Regards
Yip Yew Mun
Graduate, PhD
Chemistry and Biological Chemistry
School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Nanyang Technological University

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