Hi Robert,
The last coordinate is the box dimensions. Coordinate files come in multiple
flavors.
1) inpcrd file
Gas phase - should contain 3*natom
Orthorhombic periodic - should contain 3*natom +
xbox,ybox,zbox,alpha,beta,gamma
where alpha,beta,gamma = 90.0
truncated octahedral periodic - should contain 3*natom +
xbox,ybox,zbox,alpha,beta,gamma
2) restart file. As inpcrd file but contains 3*natom + 3*velocity +
box.....
3) mdcrd file (fomatted) - 3*natom + xbox,ybox,zbox
4) mdcrd file (netcdf binary) - see
http://ambermd.org/netcdf/nctraj.html
Also see
http://ambermd.org/formats.html
All the best
Ross
From: owner-amber.scripps.edu [mailto:owner-amber.scripps.edu] On Behalf Of
Robert Hanson
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 8:16 PM
To: amber.scripps.edu
Subject: AMBER: coordinate file question
I'm setting up Jmol to read Amber topology / coordinate files. But I've run
into an odd snag. It seems the coordinate files that I have has one too many
coordinates. I'll send links to the files if necessary, but does it make
sense that a topology file reading
%FLAG POINTERS
%FORMAT(10I8)
37300 16 29669 6234 12927 6917 28267 6499 0
0
87674 9013 6234 6917 6499 47 101 41 31
1
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 24
0
0
has a coordinate file that contains blocks of 37301 * 3 coordinates?
Does the last coordinate somehow mean something other than an atom? Do these
parameters somehow indicate that an additional coordinate is present?
Thanks,
Bob Hanson
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Robert M. Hanson
Professor of Chemistry
St. Olaf College
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Northfield, MN 55057
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If nature does not answer first what we want,
it is better to take what answer we get.
-- Josiah Willard Gibbs, Lecture XXX, Monday, February 5, 1900
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