[gmx-users] Analysis of trajectory form Gromacs 5.1.2. in Gromacs 5.0.4

[Justin Lemkul]

On 4/20/16 7:25 AM, König, Melanie wrote:
> Dear all,
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> I ran the MD simulation of my system on a  cluster using the new Gromacs version 5.1.2. I  want to analyse the trajectory on my computer with Gromacs tools from version 5.0.4. No matter which tool I use, a problem occurs. Gromacs tries to read the md.tpr file but gives an error
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> Reading file md.tpr, VERSION 5.1.2 (single precision)
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> Reading file md.tpr, VERSION 5.1.2 (single precision)
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> Segmentation fault: 11
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> I do not want to change my local Gromacs version as I use the tool g_distMat to calculate contact frequencies between two groups. As far as I know there is no tool in the new version that can do this job. Maybe there is a possibility to convert the MD files created with a new version?
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You just need to build a new .tpr with 5.0.4; trajectory format has not changed.

In general, do not expect to analyze new files with old software.  GROMACS is 
backwards-compatible, but not forward-compatible.

-Justin

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