[AMBER] native contacts calculation using cpptraj

From: Prithviraj Nandigrami via AMBER <amber.ambermd.org>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2024 19:15:02 -0400

Dear AMBER Users and Experts,

I am trying to use the native contacts analysis script implemented in
CPPTRAJ as following:

parm input.strip.parm7
trajin combined.strip.nc <http://combined.nc/>

nativecontacts name NC1 :1-110&!.H= \
   writecontacts native-contacts.dat \
   resout resout.dat \
   distance 4.0 \
   byresidue out all-residues.dat mindist maxdist \
   map mapout gnu \
   contactpdb contactspdb.pdb \
   series seriesout native-contacts-series.dat
run

 Below is an example of native.gnu output file:

   1.000 1.000 0.0000
   1.000 2.000 16.6333
   1.000 3.000 0.0000
   1.000 4.000 0.0000
   1.000 5.000 0.0000
   1.000 6.000 0.0000
   1.000 7.000 0.0000
   1.000 8.000 0.0000
   1.000 9.000 0.0000
   1.000 10.000 0.0000

I have a couple of questions regarding this:

1. What does the third column in the above output represent? Is it a
normalized frequency of contacts in percentage?

2. I have two replicates of the same system. I generated output files for
both runs using the same reference structure in the above format. I want to
show the difference between the fraction of native contacts for the two
runs and identify the regions/residues that show a difference. Does
subtracting the third column (for each run) and plotting a contact map make
sense?

I would appreciate any help/guidance regarding this.

Best regards,
-PN
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