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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 01 2005 - 11:12:55 CST

Pascal,
  At present, VMD doesn't support trajectories with varying numbers
of atoms per frame. This is something I want to address in a future
version of VMD, but at present there's not an elegant way of dealing with
this type of simulation in VMD yet.

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 05:55:36PM +0100, Pascal Boulet wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
>
> I am running grand canonical Monte Carlo simulations and store some
> structures into an XYZ multiframe file. Of course, the number of
> atoms/molecules may increase during the simulation.
>
> I couldn't visualise the trajectory file with VMD. Is there a way to do
> it?
>
>
> Thank you for your help,
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Pascal
>
>
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