[gmx-users] Origin in trajectory files (xtc/trr)

[David van der Spoel]

On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 01:33, Dallas Warren wrote:
> Have asked for the addition to VMD of the unit cell drawn on coordinate and 
> trajectory files.  Since I don't know the file formats that well can anyone 
> here provide an answer to John's question?
In gromacs it's at 0,0,0
I think in most codes it is at either 0,0,0 or
the center of the box.
> 
> John Stone:
> >The main thing we lack is a means of determining the _origin_ of the
> >unit cell.  Any suggestions on how to guess the origin of the unit cell on
> >file formats that don't provide it to us?  Several of them only give us
> >a/b/c/alpha/beta/gamma per-timestep, but nothing more.  If we can get the
> >origin of the unit cell, then it would be very simple to add the code to
> >draw the unit cell for ya.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Catch ya,
> 
> Dr. Dallas Warren
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> Victorian College of Pharmacy, Monash University
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