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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Sep 10 2014 - 15:25:12 CDT

The ABI version is the "application binary interface" version, that is,
the VMD molfile plugin interface version that implements various functions
that allow a various types of info to be loaded, etc.

Cheers,
  John

On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 02:03:39PM -0600, Eric Smoll wrote:
> Thank you, John. I will give it a shot.
> What is the "ABI plugin?" I do not see it listed on this page:
> [1]http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/plugins/
> - Eric
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 1:45 PM, John Stone <[2]johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>
> If you know the trr format, it would probably be pretty easy to
> add velocity reading support into the plugin source code.
>
> The VMD plugin ABI version 10 added support for velocities many years
> ago,
> so it's just a file-format- andA plugin-specific coding task to add
> velocity reading support.
>
> Cheers,
> A John Stone
> A [3]vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 01:28:56PM -0600, Eric Smoll wrote:
> >A A Hello VMD users,
> >A A According to this page:A
> >A A
> [1][4]http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/plugins/molfile/trrplugin.html
> >A A VMD ignores velocities in a gromacs binary trajectory files (xtc
> and trr
> >A A files.)
> >A A If I have a need for velocity information, what is the best way
> to
> >A A configure GROMACS and/or VMD to import this information.
> >A A Best,
> >A A Eric
> >
> > References
> >
> >A A Visible links
> >A A 1.
> [5]http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/plugins/molfile/trrplugin.html
> --
> NIH Center for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics
> Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
> University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
> [6]http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/A A A A A A Phone: [7]217-244-3349
> [8]http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/
>
> References
>
> Visible links
> 1. http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/plugins/
> 2. mailto:johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> 3. mailto:vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> 4. http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/plugins/molfile/trrplugin.html
> 5. http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/plugins/molfile/trrplugin.html
> 6. http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/
> 7. tel:217-244-3349
> 8. http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/ 

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