From: Luis Gracia (lug2002_at_med.cornell.edu)
Date: Mon Apr 18 2005 - 13:47:19 CDT

Hi Jorge,

files are concatenated. However you can select which frames to load from
each trajectory:

http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/current/ug/node37.html
http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/current/ug/node123.html

Best,

Luis

Jorge Pikunic said the following on 04/18/05 11:40:
> Hi,
>
> I am loading several dcd files from MD simulations. If I have a file
> that goes, for example, from timestep 1 to 10000, and another file,
> which is a continuation run of the first one, from timestep 9000 to
> 15000, what happens when I load one and then the other file? I would
> like a trajectory that goeas from 1 to 15000 (without duplicating the
> frames corresponding to 9000-10000). Are the frames corresponding to
> timesteps 9000-10000 from the first dcd file overwritten when I load the
> files in VMD? or are ALL frames loaded sequentially? What is the best
> way of concatenating several dcd files?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Jorge
>
>

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