AMBER Archive (2002)

Subject: RE: PyMOL + AMBER Trajectories

From: DeLano, Warren (warren_at_sunesis.com)
Date: Tue Sep 03 2002 - 12:51:57 CDT


Thanks to those of you who have responded to my request for Amber trajectories. They've been quite helping in teaching PyMOL how to read both Amber6 and Amber7 prmtop & trajectory files. Based on my tests, it looks like PyMOL can give up to 100-frames a second playback even on very large systems (10k+ atoms). The longest trajectory I've tested is 2350 frames, without a hiccup.
 
However, I'm still looking for a few more examples to test before releasing the new version.

Does anyone have the following which they could share?

  * A trajectory based on a non-orthogonal periodic box
  * A trajectory based on a truncated octahedron in a non-orthogonal periodic box (if such a beast exists...)

Also, I've got a question about centering: Sometimes the interesting molecule in a trajectory will straddle the periodic boundary, creating a trajectory which is difficult to visualize. Would it be useful for PyMOL to be able to optionally center an atom selection in the periodic cell at load time?

Cheers,
Warren

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