[gmx-developers] rebuild the .traj file from .gro files

[Justin A. Lemkul]

Ana West wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I ran a series of important simulations and I do not have my topol.tpr 
> or traj.trr files anymore. I do however still have the confout.gro files 
> for all the frames composing my trajectories. Is there a way for me to 
> reconstruct my traj.trr files and the topol.tpr files from the  
> confout.gro files and topol.top files?
> 

You can use trjconv to convert each .gro for every frame to a .trr format, then 
concatenate them with trjcat.  This will not, however, restore velocity 
information.  I also think that you will not have the same precision as the 
original .trr file.

As for the .tpr, just run grompp again.

-Justin

> Using gmxdump I learned of the type of information contained in a binary 
> .tpr and .trr file. However, I do not seem to figure out how to convert 
> the ASCII files to their corresponding binary files. Do you guys have 
> any suggestions for me?
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Ana
> 
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Justin A. Lemkul
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Department of Biochemistry
Virginia Tech
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