From: Ajasja Ljubetič (ajasja.ljubetic_at_gmail.com)
Date: Thu Feb 26 2015 - 10:37:55 CST
Out of curiosity -- why do you need the velocities?
NAMD can always assign new (random) velocities from the Maxwell-Boltzmann
distribution using the temperature command.
Best regards,
Ajasja
On 26 February 2015 at 16:41, Brian Radak <brian.radak.accts_at_gmail.com>
wrote:
> Would it be difficult/possible to implement reading/writing of velocity
> files with psfgen? I'm assuming that the underlying binary format for .coor
> and .vel files is the same and thus the reading/writing is only really
> different in the presumed meaning of the arrays. Is this correct?
>
> What I'd like to be able to do is read in a psf/coor/vel combination, add
> new atoms with a patch and then write a new psf/coor/vel combination to
> disk.
>
> Psfgen can already assign new coordinates to new atoms and I again assume
> it would be much the same mechanism to assign velocities (an analog of the
> "coord" command). It would also be convenient to simply draw new velocities
> from a Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution at a given temperature.
>
> I'm poking around in "tcl_psfgen" at the moment, but not entirely sure
> what to make of everything.
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>
> --
> Brian Radak
> Postdoctoral Scholar
> University of Chicago
> Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
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>
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