I know, bit of a zombie topic (May 2011) to be digging out of the archives here.

I have previously used g_sdf rather extensively and needed to generate some 
spatial distribution functions for a paper.  Started to looked into g_spatial 
to see if that can do what I want it to, since g_sdf has been removed from the 
distribution.  g_spatial is not what I expected and seems to me to be actually 
less flexible than g_sdf was, though I are more than likely wanting to use it 
slightly differently way to the person that wrote/developed it.  g_spatial 
requires a single solute molecule that is relatively stationary and centered 
for the length of the trajectory (which needs some running through trjconv to 
get this done), then it calculates the SDF relative to this molecule.  g_sdf 
makes no such assumption and you can have many molecules which you can then 
calculate and get the average SDF.

Is there the possibility that we can either have g_sdf added back into the 
distribution (or is there documentation / discussion somewhere that I can read 
to see why it was removed), or the functionality that has been lost added into 
g_spatial (probably not trivial)?  Don't like my chances though ;-), but can't 
hurt to ask.

I am currently using a 4.0.7 installation of GROMACS, which includes g_sdf, to 
generate the appropriate images I need.

> Justin Lemkul wrote:
> Nilesh Dhumal wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have a system with glucose + ionic liquids (cation + anion).
> > 
> > I am trying calculate distribution of cation and anion around glucose
> > molecule using g_sdf. I want to plot distribution of cation and anion is
> > same figure. I run the following command
> > 
> > g_sdf -f 3.trr -s 3.tpr -n glu-emi-dmp-128-no.ndx -mode 2 -o -r
> >
> > I selected two atoms from glucose and 3rd and 4th groups are cation and
> > anion respectively.
> > 
> > All the coordinates in  refmol.gro are zero.
> > 
> > I am using gromacs version 4.0.7.
> > 
> > Why all the coordinates in  refmol.gro are zero.
> > 
>
> g_sdf is relatively inflexible; it was designed (it appears) around 
> calculations 
> involving water.  g_spatial is much more flexible, and I believe it was for 
> this 
> reason that g_sdf has been removed from newer Gromacs versions.  Try 
> g_spatial 
> instead.
>
> -Justin
>
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> ========================================
>
> Justin A. Lemkul
> Ph.D. Candidate
> ICTAS Doctoral Scholar
> MILES-IGERT Trainee
> Department of Biochemistry
> Virginia Tech
> Blacksburg, VA
> jalemkul[at]vt.edu | (540) 231-9080
> http://www.bevanlab.biochem.vt.edu/Pages/Personal/justin
>
> ========================================

Catch ya,

Dr. Dallas Warren
Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Action
Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University
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