Dear Miro,
If you create your groups in the same way as shown in the tutorial, the
input dx file is filtered, i.e., it contains a 1 for voxels that should
be in a group, and and 0 for voxels that should not be in a group.
Actually, the data needs to be filtered somehow, since gistpp searches
for adjacent non-zero voxels.
This translates to the group output. The grcount.txt file contains the
number of voxels assigned to each group, while the group1.dx file
contains the voxels of group 1 as a binary mask (as in the input file).
You can use this mask to obtain the number of water molecules in a group
(averaged over the frames, but summed over the group) like this:
gistpp -i gist-gO.dx -i2 group1.dx -op mult -o gist-gO-group1.dx
gistpp -i gist-gO-group1.dx -op sum | tee sum-group1.txt
awk '/sum of:/{print "Number of waters in group 1:", $5 * 0.0329 *
0.125}' sum-group1.txt
(Replace 0.0329 for your reference density, and 0.125 for the voxel volume.)
You could also multiply your filtered input with the density before
running group, to obtain the scaled groups directly. Just make sure that
the low-density regions are still set to zero.
Unless this is a testing run, I would recommend using more than 1000
frames in the GIST analysis. Optimally around 100000, but we often use
10000 for large systems. Use the PME or GPU implementations to speed up
the calculation.
Let me know if this helps.
Best regards,
Franz Waibl
Am 20.07.2022 um 12:52 schrieb Miroslav Dikov via AMBER:
> Dear AMBER users,
> Recently I started using GIST as implemented in CPPTRAJ and gistpp, for which I have been following the main tutorial at the AMBER website. However, I am still not clear on how to obtain the average number of water molecules per group as generated by “gistpp <…> -op group”.
> One of the files generated by gist is called grcount.txt and at first sight it seems that it outputs the average number of molecules per group, but this is not the case, because the resulting values are too high (~90 for a single water molecule in the binding site). If I normalise against the length of the trajectory (1000 frames), then the values become too low (0.09 molecules, which is again not consistent with visually inspecting the trajectory).
> Does anyone have experience obtaining the average number of water molecules per GIST group? Any help would be much appreciated.
> Kind regards,Miro
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