Re: [AMBER] ptraj, unit cell wrapping and velocities

From: case <case.biomaps.rutgers.edu>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 07:32:22 -0400

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010, Ben Roberts wrote:
>
> When I do this in ptraj, by dint of reading a restart file in,
> performing the wrapping procedure, and writing a restart file out, I
> find that the velocities are scrapped and replaced with zeroes.

Of course, ptraj (or things like Dan's alternative) should fix this.

> Is it safe to assume that atoms are moving in the same direction before
> and after the wrapping (so that a simple copy-and-paste can be done
> with the velocities)?

You should never need to "wrap" velocities, as far as I know. But it's easy
enough to check: run short simulations with and without imaging of
coordinates, and see what happens.

....dac


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