[gmx-users] reduced units

[Justin Lemkul]

On 2/11/13 4:09 PM, Pengzhi Zhang wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> I'm a gromacs newbie. I am using gromacs function g_anaeig to do principle
> component analysis. I use coordinates (converted to be .trr files for
> gromacs) and topology from amber. I know that gromacs works with units like
> nm, kJ/mol etc, while amber with angstrom. Does anyone know that when
> gromacs read the coordinate files, whether it assumes the values are in nm
> or in angstrom (if so, gromacs converts them by itself to nm without telling
> us)?
>

Gromacs uses nm for everything except when a .pdb file is specified for input or 
output, in which case Angstrom is used.

-Justin

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