[gmx-users] ngmx for microsoft

[Erik Lindahl]

On Friday, Mar 14, 2003, at 20:38 US/Pacific, David Kendall wrote:

> Does anyone know if there is a trajectory visualization tool like ngmx 
> for Microsoft Windows that accepts GROMACS trajectory files?
>
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Hi David,

There are a couple of options:

First - ngmx is not the world's most beautiful visualizer, but 
personally I kind of like that it doesn't need OpenGL - it's quite 
useful when you're running on a supercomputer center and only have an X 
connection :-)


If you really, really want ngmx you can install the cygwin environment 
and XFree for windows, and then compile gromacs with X support (and 
thus ngmx). You will need to have the xserver running, but this also 
has the advantage that you can run the Xmgrace graphing program.

The second alternative is to use the VMD or gOpenMol vizualization 
programs. These need a .gro file to determine atom types and names, but 
then they can read out trr and xtc trajectories. Both of them are 
opengl accelerated and do pretty animations.

We _might_ try to make something more portable in the future, but we 
really don't know which programs people use for visualization and 
graphing under windows, so we should probably try to get an idea of 
that first...

Cheers,

Erik

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