From: Jason O'Young (oyoung_at_rogers.com)
Date: Wed Aug 15 2007 - 17:21:28 CDT
Hi Audrey.
The coordinates are stored in the DCD file in a binary format (this
is why it looks like junk).
You can visualize the data with VMD.
If I am not mistaken, I believe there are some tools/plugins buried
on the NAMD site to extract coordinates from a DCD and calculate the
center of mass over time.
Jason
On 15-Aug-07, at 4:03 PM, Audrey Salazar wrote:
> Hello,
> I am a first year graduate student modeling nucleic acids in NAMD.
> For every time step, NAMD, like all MD programs, calculates the
> coordinates of each atom for each time step.
>
> ** Is there a way that I store this information in a file?
>
> I have looked in all the files that my .conf file specifies to output:
> .vel, .coor, .dcd (these three files are illegible), .xst, and .xsc.
>
> Do any of these files contain the information that I seek? If the
> information is contained in the illegible files, how can I read them?
>
> For long nucleic acid chains, writing these coordinates to a very
> large file will be very cumbersome.
>
> **Is there a way that I could store the coordinates of the center of
> mass of parts of the chain at every time step to file instead?
>
> I would appreciate any guidance that the NAMD community might be able
> to provide.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Audrey
>
> --
> Audrey L. Salazar
> Amaral Research Group
> Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering Phone: 847.491.2188
> Northwestern University
> Evanston, IL USA
>
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