g_energy

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VERSION 3.2.0
Sun 25 Jan 2004


Description

g_energy extracts energy components or distance restraint data from an energy file. The user is prompted to interactively select the energy terms she wants.

Average and RMSD are calculated with full precision from the simulation (see printed manual). Drift is calculated by performing a LSQ fit of the data to a straight line. Total drift is drift multiplied by total time.

When the -viol option is set, the time averaged violations are plotted and the running time-averaged and instantaneous sum of violations are recalculated. Additionally running time-averaged and instantaneous distances between selected pairs can be plotted with the -pairs option.

Options -ora, -ort, -oda, -odr and -odt are used for analyzing orientation restraint data. The first two options plot the orientation, the last three the deviations of the orientations from the experimental values. The options that end on an 'a' plot the average over time as a function of restraint. The options that end on a 't' prompt the user for restraint label numbers and plot the data as a function of time. Option -odr plots the RMS deviation as a function of restraint. When the run used time or ensemble averaged orientation restraints, option -orinst can be used to analyse the instantaneous, not ensemble-averaged orientations and deviations instead of the time and ensemble averages.

With -fee an estimate is calculated for the free-energy difference with an ideal gas state:
Delta A = A(N,V,T) - A_idgas(N,V,T) = kT ln < e^(Upot/kT) >
Delta G = G(N,p,T) - G_idgas(N,p,T) = kT ln < e^(Upot/kT) >
where k is Boltzmann's constant, T is set by -fetemp andthe average is over the ensemble (or time in a trajectory). Note that this is in principle only correct when averaging over the whole (Boltzmann) ensemble and using the potential energy. This also allows for an entropy estimate using:
Delta S(N,V,T) = S(N,V,T) - S_idgas(N,V,T) = (<Upot> - Delta A)/T
Delta S(N,p,T) = S(N,p,T) - S_idgas(N,p,T) = (<Upot> + pV - Delta G)/T

When a second energy file is specified (-f2), a free energy difference is calculated dF = -kT ln < e ^ -(EB-EA)/kT >A , where EA and EB are the energies from the first and second energy files, and the average is over the ensemble A. NOTE that the energies must both be calculated from the same trajectory.

Files

optionfilenametypedescription
-f ener.edr Input Generic energy: edr ene
-f2 ener.edr Input, Opt. Generic energy: edr ene
-s topol.tpr Input, Opt. Generic run input: tpr tpb tpa xml
-o energy.xvg Output xvgr/xmgr file
-viol violaver.xvg Output, Opt. xvgr/xmgr file
-pairs pairs.xvg Output, Opt. xvgr/xmgr file
-ora orienta.xvg Output, Opt. xvgr/xmgr file
-ort orientt.xvg Output, Opt. xvgr/xmgr file
-oda orideva.xvg Output, Opt. xvgr/xmgr file
-odr oridevr.xvg Output, Opt. xvgr/xmgr file
-odt oridevt.xvg Output, Opt. xvgr/xmgr file
-corr enecorr.xvg Output, Opt. xvgr/xmgr file
-vis visco.xvg Output, Opt. xvgr/xmgr file
-ravg runavgdf.xvg Output, Opt. xvgr/xmgr file

Other options

optiontypedefaultdescription
-[no]h bool no Print help info and quit
-nice int 19 Set the nicelevel
-b time -1 First frame (ps) to read from trajectory
-e time -1 Last frame (ps) to read from trajectory
-[no]w bool no View output xvg, xpm, eps and pdb files
-[no]fee bool no Do a free energy estimate
-fetemp real 300 Reference temperature for free energy calculation
-zero real 0 Subtract a zero-point energy
-[no]sum bool no Sum the energy terms selected rather than display them all
-[no]dp bool no Print energies in high precision
-[no]mutot bool no Compute the total dipole moment from the components
-skip int 0 Skip number of frames between data points
-[no]aver bool no Print also the X1,t and sigma1,t, only if only 1 energy is requested
-nmol int 1 Number of molecules in your sample: the energies are divided by this number
-ndf int 3 Number of degrees of freedom per molecule. Necessary for calculating the heat capacity
-[no]fluc bool no Calculate autocorrelation of energy fluctuations rather than energy itself
-[no]orinst bool no Analyse instantaneous orientation data
-acflen int -1 Length of the ACF, default is half the number of frames
-[no]normalize bool yes Normalize ACF
-P enum 0 Order of Legendre polynomial for ACF (0 indicates none): 0, 1, 2 or 3
-fitfn enum none Fit function: none, exp, aexp, exp_exp, vac, exp5, exp7 or exp9
-ncskip int 0 Skip N points in the output file of correlation functions
-beginfit real 0 Time where to begin the exponential fit of the correlation function
-endfit real -1 Time where to end the exponential fit of the correlation function, -1 is till the end


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