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Re: [h5md-user] H5MD for proteins
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Konrad Hinsen |
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Re: [h5md-user] H5MD for proteins |
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Tue, 10 Sep 2013 08:12:26 +0200 |
Pierre de Buyl writes:
> H5MD attempts to be rather generic. The module/convention in the other thread
> could be a satisfactory solution.
Indeed. But one question one needs to ask is: what's the goal of
"bare" H5MD? What can one do with a trajectory file if all one knows
is that it's a valid H5MD file?
For now I see mainly visualization of trajectory contents, plus some
very specific calculations. For example, one could compute the center
of mass of a subgroup. Computing the center of mass of two subgroups
is already impossible without additional assumptions, because the
positions of two different subgroups could be stored in different
units that are unknown.
> Do you mean that Mosaic-HDF5 would sit on top of H5MD?
Not in general, just for trajectories. A trajectory would be
an H5MD file with a Mosaic universe (another HDF5 group) sitting
next to the h5md directory. With a definite name for that universe,
we'd have our first module.
> > I'll post a few more specific questions about the current H5MD
> > definition in separate threads, this message is just to provide
> > the context for them.
>
> Welcome back then :-)
Thanks! And thanks for all the work you all did on H5MD. I know
it's a lot of work which most outsiders don't appreciate as much
as they should.
Konrad.
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