Hi,
On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 10:40 PM, Muthukumaran R <kumaran.bicpu.edu.in> wrote:
> To calculate variance, it is necessary to obtain all the eigen values of a
> system. This can be obtained using 'thermo' keyword and 'thermo' runs only
> with mass-weighted covariance matrix.
> Hence mass-weighted covariance matrix was used.
>
> Is there any other way to calculate variance without using mass-weighted
> covariance matrix ?
I'm not clear on what you mean by 'variance' here. It's not necessary
to mass-weight a coordinate covariance matrix to obtain eigenvalues,
but it does change the units (when mass-weighted eigenvalues are
converted to frequencies to enable quasi-harmonic analysis). In your
original email you mention PCA, which implies (to me at least) using
the non-mass-weighted coordinate covariance matrix. Maybe if you
provide some more details on the analysis you're trying to perform I
can try to give more specific advice.
-Dan
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 9:53 PM, Daniel Roe <daniel.r.roe.gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The actual formula is:
>>
>> Freq. = TO_CM1 * sqrt( KT / Eigenvalue)
>>
>> where TO_CM1 is a constant for converting from original eigenvalue
>> units to units of frequency (was 108.587 in ptraj but has much higher
>> precision in cpptraj) and KT is Boltzmann's constant time temperature
>> in Kelvin (originally in ptraj this was hardcoded to 0.6 kcal/mol, but
>> in recent versions of cpptraj you can specify the temperature during
>> 'diagmatrix'). So according to this, the conversion the other way is:
>>
>> Eigenvalue = KT / (Freq. / TO_CM1)^2
>>
>> If I plug your first frequency (0.48444 cm^-1) into this (using
>> 108.587 and 0.6 for TO_CM1 and KT respectively) I get ~30145 Ang.^2 *
>> amu.
>>
>> However, is there a reason you chose to mass-weight your covariance
>> matrix in the first place? If all you want to do is PCA you should
>> just use the coordinate covariance matrix (i.e. 'matrix covar'). I
>> think the only real reason you'd want to mass-weight your covariance
>> matrix is if you want to perform quasi-harmonic analysis.
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>>
>> -Dan
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 8:42 AM, Muthukumaran R <kumaran.bicpu.edu.in>
>> wrote:
>> > Dear Amber users,
>> >
>> > I am performing PCA calculations using cpptraj in ambertools 14.
>> > There are 630 C-alpha atoms in my protein and the mass-weighted
>> covariance
>> > matrix is 1890 x 1890.
>> >
>> > I extracted the eigenvalues and the first 5 are given below.
>> >
>> > 1 0.48444
>> > 2 0.58309
>> > 3 1.08605
>> > 4 1.58621
>> > 5 1.98272
>> >
>> > I want to calculate the percentage of variance for each eigenvector.
>> >
>> > According to the suggestions given in the mailing list, I understand that
>> > these are frequencies and should be converted to eigenvalues for
>> > calculating variance.
>> >
>> > I tried to convert them using the conversion formula,
>> > Freq = 108.587 * sqrt( 0.6 / Eigenvalue )
>> >
>> > (http://archive.ambermd.org/201307/0678.html)
>> >
>> > But, the first frequency gave a very small eigenvalue (in the range of
>> e-06)
>> >
>> > Am I proceeding in the right direction?
>> >
>> > I need your valuable suggestions in calculating the percentage variance
>> of
>> > each eigenvector.
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance..
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