1 .TH g_helixorient 1 "Thu 26 Aug 2010" "" "GROMACS suite, VERSION 4.5"
3 g_helixorient - calculates local pitch/bending/rotation/orientation inside helices
8 .BI "\-s" " topol.tpr "
10 .BI "\-n" " index.ndx "
11 .BI "\-oaxis" " helixaxis.dat "
12 .BI "\-ocenter" " center.dat "
13 .BI "\-orise" " rise.xvg "
14 .BI "\-oradius" " radius.xvg "
15 .BI "\-otwist" " twist.xvg "
16 .BI "\-obending" " bending.xvg "
17 .BI "\-otilt" " tilt.xvg "
18 .BI "\-orot" " rotation.xvg "
20 .BI "\-[no]version" ""
26 .BI "\-[no]sidechain" ""
27 .BI "\-[no]incremental" ""
29 \&g_helixorient calculates the coordinates and direction of the average
30 \&axis inside an alpha helix, and the direction/vectors of both the
31 \&alpha carbon and (optionally) a sidechain atom relative to the axis.
34 \&As input, you need to specify an index group with alpha carbon atoms
35 \&corresponding to an alpha helix of continuous residues. Sidechain
36 \&directions require a second index group of the same size, containing
37 \&the heavy atom in each residue that should represent the sidechain.
40 \&Note that this program does not do any fitting of structures.
43 \&We need four Calpha coordinates to define the local direction of the helix
47 \&The tilt/rotation is calculated from Euler rotations, where we define
48 \&the helix axis as the local X axis, the residues/CA\-vector as Y, and the
49 \&Z axis from their cross product. We use the Euler Y\-Z\-X rotation, meaning
50 \&we first tilt the helix axis (1) around and (2) orthogonal to the residues
51 \&vector, and finally apply the (3) rotation around it. For debugging or other
52 \&purposes, we also write out the actual Euler rotation angles as theta1\-3.xvg
54 .BI "\-s" " topol.tpr"
56 Run input file: tpr tpb tpa
60 Trajectory: xtc trr trj gro g96 pdb cpt
62 .BI "\-n" " index.ndx"
66 .BI "\-oaxis" " helixaxis.dat"
70 .BI "\-ocenter" " center.dat"
74 .BI "\-orise" " rise.xvg"
78 .BI "\-oradius" " radius.xvg"
82 .BI "\-otwist" " twist.xvg"
86 .BI "\-obending" " bending.xvg"
90 .BI "\-otilt" " tilt.xvg"
94 .BI "\-orot" " rotation.xvg"
100 Print help info and quit
102 .BI "\-[no]version" "no "
103 Print version info and quit
105 .BI "\-nice" " int" " 19"
108 .BI "\-b" " time" " 0 "
109 First frame (ps) to read from trajectory
111 .BI "\-e" " time" " 0 "
112 Last frame (ps) to read from trajectory
114 .BI "\-dt" " time" " 0 "
115 Only use frame when t MOD dt = first time (ps)
117 .BI "\-xvg" " enum" " xmgrace"
118 xvg plot formatting: \fB xmgrace\fR, \fB xmgr\fR or \fB none\fR
120 .BI "\-[no]sidechain" "no "
121 Calculate sidechain directions relative to helix axis too.
123 .BI "\-[no]incremental" "no "
124 Calculate incremental rather than total rotation/tilt.
129 More information about \fBGROMACS\fR is available at <\fIhttp://www.gromacs.org/\fR>.