[gmx-users] Where is the origin of the coordinate system?

[David van der Spoel]

Lam Nguyen Sy wrote:
> Dear Gromacs users,
> 
> I have a problem on understanding where the origin of
> the coordinate system is. Is it at one corner of the
> box, at the center of the box, or somewhere else? The
> box type I'm using is truncated octahedral.
> 
> I tried to find the minimum and maximum coordinates of
> a system (including proteins+water), and it turned out
> that the minimum was close to 0 and the maximum was
> close to the length of the box vector. This meant the
> origin was at a corner of the box. 
> But in my analyses, when I pretended that the origin
> was at the center of the box, the result appeared to
> be very good. And the much worse resulted when I used
> the origin at a corner of the box.
> 
> If there is any idea, it would be very useful for me.
> 
> Have a nice week,
> 
> nslam

it is at the origin of a cubic box in which your trunc oct fits.
you can translate everything if you wish by trjconv. try out g_traj for 
analysis as well.

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