Re: [AMBER] Compressing trajectory file

From: Daniel Roe <daniel.r.roe.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 09:10:06 -0500

Hi,

You could also try writing trajectories in Gromacs XTC format. Be
aware however you will lose some precision in doing so.

-Dan

On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 1:37 AM, Setyanto Md <stwahyudi.md.gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank You Prof. David and Prof. Elvis,
>
> -------
> Biophysics Division,
> Department of Physics - Bogor Agricultural University
> Gedung Fisika Wing-S Lt.2 Jl. Meranti
> Kampus IPB Darmaga
> Bogor - 16680
> Indonesia
>
> On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 9:09 AM, David A Case <david.case.rutgers.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jan 26, 2018, Setyanto Md wrote:
>> >
>> > I have trajectory files. there are 50 files totally around 18 GB. The
>> > trajectory was written in netcdf format.
>> >
>> > I tried to compress using bzip2. The size of output file only 17 GB.
>> only 1
>> > GB differences with the original file.
>> >
>> > Is this because the netcdf format ? or the bzip2 is not good for
>> > compressing ?
>>
>> To add to the previous reply: netcdf is already a binary file, and will not
>> allow much further compression.
>>
>> ....dac
>>
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