[gmx-users] omit solvent's coordinates in output file

[Justin A. Lemkul]

vedat durmaz wrote:
> dear gromacsters,
> 
> does anyone know a way to tell gromacs which molecule's coordinates to
> write to the output file which should be as small as possible? i don't
> need the solvent's coordinates for example.
> 
> starting run like:
> 
> grompp -f ../../md.mdp -c eq.gro -n index.ndx -p complex.top -o md.tpr
> mpiexec -n 32 mdrun -v -deffnm md 2>&1
> 
> thanks a lot and best regards
> 

See the "xtc_grps" keyword in the .mdp file.  This will have no effect on the 
output coordinate file, but will keep the .xtc trajectory small(er).  It also 
has no effect on your .trr file, so choose nstxout, nstvout, etc appropriately.

-Justin

> vedat
> 

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Justin A. Lemkul
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Department of Biochemistry
Virginia Tech
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