[gmx-users] Selecting certain types of atoms from trajectory file with C++ code

[Justin Lemkul]

On 9/19/13 12:33 AM, Zhikun wrote:
> Dear users,
>
> Recently I have been trying to use "xdrfile" libray to read trajectory
> ".trr" file in my own C++ code. Now I can just read the coordinates of  all
> atoms at each time frame. But I don't know how to select certain types of
> atoms from the trajectory file. Although the graomcs tool "make_ndx" can do
> this, but i need to do it with C++ codes for the purpose of further
> analysis. Does someone have any experience about this? Your reply would be
> greatly appreciated.
>

Atom names, types, etc are not stored in trajectories at all.  They are in 
topologies (.top/.tpr) so you need to get the information from those file types.

-Justin

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