[gmx-users] recalculating .trr from .xtc

XAvier Periole x.periole at rug.nl
Tue Oct 15 09:16:57 CEST 2013


Interactions will be off, especially the bonded terms. 

> On Oct 15, 2013, at 7:21, Mark Abraham <mark.j.abraham at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Also, the precision was selected when the xtc file was written, ie in the
> mdp file.
> 
> Mark
>> On Oct 15, 2013 3:24 AM, "Justin Lemkul" <jalemkul at vt.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On 10/14/13 7:56 PM, Leandro Bortot wrote:
>>> 
>>> Dear GROMACS users,
>>> 
>>>      Does anyone know how significant is the difference between the
>>> "original" .trr file from a simulation and a "recalculated" .trr from a
>>> whole system .xtc (mdrun -rerun traj.xtc -o traj.trr)?
>>>      I mean... do you know how big would be the error induced by this
>>> "recalculation" procedure?
>>> 
>>>      I'm not interested in calculating autocorrelation functions. Most of
>>> my analysis are related to the atom positions over time and free energy
>>> calculations.
>> Position-related quantities should be impacted very little.  Given that
>> you can't acquire precision though, I see no point in even generating a
>> .trr file - the .xtc has the same information while occupying less disk
>> space.
>> 
>> -Justin
>> 
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