From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Apr 25 2003 - 17:40:04 CDT

Tyler,
  Ah, thanks for the note.
I'll see if I can dig up that file. That belonged to one of our
past VMD undergrad helpers. I'll see if can be found on our backup tapes,
his account was deleted some time ago as he graduated over a year ago.
I can't vouch for the accuracy of that description, but since you were
able to use it, it must be mostly correct. :-)

Thanks,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 04:34:11PM -0600, tluchko wrote:
> Hi,
>
> there was a nice break down of the format at
>
> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~danorris/projects/formats/dcd-charmm.shtml
>
> but this seems to be gone? Does anybody know where this might be now? I used
> it to help me write a program to read in DCD files.
>
> Tyler
>
> >===== Original Message From John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> =====
> >Hi,
> > Unless you are a glutton for punishment, I'd reccommend
> >avoiding writing your own DCD file code. :)
> >Instead, I'd recommend using either a sequence of PDB files,
> >a multi-structure PDB file, or some other easy-to-write ASCII-based
> >file format. DCD files are Fortran-formatted binary files that
> >are not endian-independent. The only documentation for DCD files would
> >be found in the old X-PLOR manual, or with Charmm, since those
> >programs seem to have originated the format.
> >
> >If you need help loading a bunch of PDB files (which are not "easy"
> >to format correctly, but much easier than a binary DCD file) check out
> >this script:
> > http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/script_library/scripts/animatepdbs/
> >
> >Thanks,
> > John Stone
> > vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> >
> >On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 04:50:23PM -0400, Changbong Hyeon wrote:
> >> I have a set of coordinates.
> >> I think I can make a movie if I organize my raw coordinates in such a way
> >> that DCD file is organized.
> >> Does anybody know how DCD file is organized?
> >> Thank you for your help.
> >>
> >> Changbong Hyeon
> >
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Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
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