[gmx-users] General questions

[David van der Spoel]

On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Marc Baaden wrote:

>
>Here some things under the topic "What I often wondered about,
>but never actually asked anybody" ...
>
>- is there a way of estimating the size of XTC and TRR, .. files ?
>  given that number of atoms and frequency of writing is known or
>  can be retrieved from the mdp file
trr = 12*natoms*(nsteps/nstxout+nsteps/nstvout+nsteps/nstfout)
xtc = 4*natoms*nsteps/nstxout

>- is there an easy way of calculating the closest distance in any
>   of the 3 directions x,y and z of a molecule to its periodic
>   images when using pbc
No, but it would be useful. 

Groeten, David.
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