Hi,
another quick and dirty tip (but at least it works !) is to generate a new trajectory using trjconv with a huge layer of vacuum on the Z direction (assuming your membrane normal is oriented along Z): you can do that with the -box option with a large value for Z. If you just put only the phosphorous atoms in there this won't generate a large file.
Cheers,

Patrick

Alan Dodd a écrit :
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I've since found the source of my problem - the program was measuring the (marginally shorter) distance across the PBC boundary, rather than the distance within the box. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a way to turn PBC images off (correct me if I'm wrong?), so I guess I'm going to do some jiggerypokery with the data and some math.
Distance larger than half a box size are ill-defined anyway in a PBC simulation.
-What do you mean?  I'd assumed that simply having enough water separating a 
bilayer from its periodic image that no water 'saw' both bilayers would be 
sufficient; is this not the case?



In some special cases you can do this, for instance within a protein it would work. I've implemented -nopbc options in some programs but not in g_dist yet. Please put it on the developer wishlist. on the wiki.

-Done.  Until then, I'm using g_traj -ox -com and doing the math with my own 
script.  Many thanks for the various alternative techniques suggested.


      
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