[gmx-developers] suggestion: velocities.xtc

[David van der Spoel]

Tsjerk Wassenaar wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Actually, I did modify GMX3.3.1 to write velocities to a .xtc file
> and, although I do agree with the statements regarding the offsets and
> the need for precision, I find that there is definite benefit of using
> the .xtc format. The file is much smaller than a .trr file (using the
> same precision as for the positions, three decimals), although twice
> as large as the coordinate .xtc file.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Tsjerk


I agree that it makes sense to do something like this. For most analysis 
this will be sufficient and for restarts we have the trr. In summary, we 
don't want to modify the existing format in order not to break other 
programs (such ad VMD), so for version 4 we'll probably make a new format.

-- 
David.
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