How to use dnaMD tool?

do_x3dna generates large amount of data and analyzing these data is difficult. Therefore, dnaMD tools are developed to analyze data obtained from do_x3dna output files. It contains set of tools to analyze the data.

These tools are particularly developed for the users with no programming experiences. These can be used as commands and the resultant output files can be used in external plotting program like xmgrace, gnuplot, excel etc to plot the results.

Other tools are presently in development.

List of sub-commands available in dnaMD

Command

Function

saveAsH5

Save parameters to a HDF5 file

axisCurv

Calculate global helical-axis, curvatures and tangents from local helical axis.

vsTime

Extract a parameter as a function of time

histogram

Parameter distribution during simulation

vsBPS

Average parameters as a function of base-pair/step

localDeformation

Deformation of local parameters in probe DNA with respect to a reference DNA

globalElasticity

Calculate global elastic properties of the DNA

globalEnergy

Calculate deformation free energy of the DNA

localElasticity

Calculate local elastic properties of the DNA

localEnergy

Calculate local deformation energy of the DNA