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Sat 19 Jan 2013

Parameter files mdp run parameters, input for grompp and tpbconv m2p input for xpm2ps

Structure files

gro: GROMACS format
g96: GROMOS-96 format
pdb: brookhaven Protein DataBank format
Generic structure formats: gro, g96, pdb, tpr, tpb or tpa
Structure+mass(db): tpr, tpb, tpa, gro, g96 or pdb.: Structure and mass input for analysis tools. When gro or pdb is used approximate masses will be read from the mass database.

Topology files

top: system topology (ascii)
itp: include topology (ascii)
rtp: residue topology (ascii)
ndx: index file

Run Input files

tpr: system topology, parameters, coordinates and velocities (binary, portable)
tpa: system topology, parameters, coordinates and velocities (ascii)
tpb: system topology, parameters, coordinates and velocities (binary)
Generic run input file formats: tpr, tpb or tpa

Trajectory files

trj: x, v and f (binary, full precision)
trr: x, v and f (binary, full precision, portable)
xtc: x only (compressed, portable, any precision)
g87: x and v (ascii)
gro: x and v (ascii, any precision)
g96: x only (ascii, fixed high precision)
pdb: x only (ascii, reduced precision)
Full precision formats: trr or trj
Generic trajectory formats: xtc, trr, trj, gro, g96, pdb or g87

Energy files

ene: energies, temperature, pressure, box size, density and virials (binary)
edr: energies, temperature, pressure, box size, density and virials (binary, portable)
Generic energy formats: edr or ene

Other files

dat: generic, preferred for input
edi: essential dynamics constraints input for mdrun
edo: essential dynamics constraints output for mdrun
eps: Encapsulated Postscript
log: log file
map: colormap input for do_dssp
mtx: binary matrix data
out: generic, preferred for output
tex: LaTeX input
xpm: ascii matrix data, use xpm2ps to convert to eps
xvg: xvgr input

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