Maybe your protein is not spherical enough to benefit from the
center-of-mass-based analysis? Furthermore, was your initial system
configuration properly equilibrated?




On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 11:33 PM, Carlos Navarro Retamal
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear gmx users,
> In an attempt to analyse the interaction between a Protein and a Bilayer (in 
> a CG MD simulations) i’m using gmx distance as following:
> gmx distance -f DFMG-200ns.xtc -s DFMG-200ns.tpr -n index.ndx -select 'com of 
> group "Protein" plus com of group "Membranes"' -oall distance.xvg.
> By analysing the CONTACTS between both macromolecules i now that the protein 
> interact peripherally with the membrane (moving from the aqueous solution to 
> the membrane), by interacting with the head group of the bilayer. My problem 
> is that, contrary to what i might imagine, base on the ‘distance’  analysis 
> i’m seeing that the distance between the molecules increase during time:
> beginning:
>       0.000    4.062
>     100.000    3.952
>     200.000    3.768
>     300.000    3.576
>     400.000    3.422
>     500.000    3.526
>     600.000    3.561
>     700.000    3.619
>     800.000    3.643
>     900.000    3.682
>
> end:
>  199100.000    5.347
>  199200.000    5.244
>  199300.000    5.273
>  199400.000    5.410
>  199500.000    5.369
>  199600.000    5.275
>  199700.000    5.415
>  199800.000    5.525
>  199900.000    5.557
>  200000.000    5.441
>
> I tried using the -pbc flag (when i used gmx distance) without luck (i got 
> the same values as before).
> What could be the reason?
> Thanks in advance,
> Carlos
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> Ph. D (c) Applied Sciences.
> Center of Bioinformatics and Molecular Simulations. CBSM
> University of Talca
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