[gmx-users] trr to xtc

Anton Feenstra feenstra at few.vu.nl
Fri Dec 10 18:21:34 CET 2004


David van der Spoel wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 09:16 +0000, Abil Aliev wrote:
> 
>>is any information lost on converting trr to xtc by 
>>trjconv -f file.trr -o file.xtc. space saving is
>>impressive, about 8 fold, but not sure if xtc is as
>>good as trr for the analysis tools.  
> 
> Yes, you lose precision. xtc is rounded to pm.
> 
> For most analysis this is not relevant.

Also, trjconv has an option to set the # decimal places that get into the 
.xtc file.


-- 
Groetjes,

Anton
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