AMBER Archive (2006)

Subject: Re: AMBER: Announcement: Amber 9 is now available

From: David A. Case (case_at_scripps.edu)
Date: Fri Mar 31 2006 - 10:56:48 CST

On Fri, Mar 31, 2006, David E. Konerding wrote:
>
> I would like to add netcdf trajectory format support to UCSF Chimera, so
> a pointer to the binary file format documentation would be very useful.
> I didn't see it in the manual.

See the "file formats" link on the Amber web page. The exact URL is here:

    http://amber.scripps.edu/netcdf/nctraj.html

>
> Have you guys given thought to using netcdf or HDF5 for prmtop files as
> well as trajectories? This would eliminate the need for custom
> parsers of the prmtop file format, and would produce much smaller prmtop
> files.

We have no such plans...we'll have to see how the trajectory stuff works.

...dac

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