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  • MDAnalysis
  • API docs (stable)
  • API docs (development)
  • MDAKits

Getting started

  • Installation Guide
  • Quick start guide
  • Frequently asked questions
  • Examples
  • MDAnalysis Release Notes

Data structures

  • Universe
  • AtomGroup
  • Groups of atoms
  • Atom selection language
  • The topology system
  • Guessing Topology Attributes

Trajectories

  • Trajectories
  • Slicing trajectories
  • On-the-fly transformations
  • Units and constants

Input/output

  • Reading and writing files
  • Format overview
  • Auxiliary files
  • Selection exporters
  • Format reference
    • chemfiles (chemfiles Trajectory or file)
    • CONFIG (DL_Poly Config)
    • HISTORY (DL_Poly Config)
    • COOR, NAMBDIN (NAMD binary restart files)
    • CRD (CHARMM CARD files)
    • DATA (LAMMPS)
    • DCD (CHARMM, NAMD, or LAMMPS trajectory)
    • DCD (Flexible LAMMPS trajectory)
    • DMS (Desmond Molecular Structure files)
    • GMS (Gamess trajectory)
    • GRO (GROMACS structure file)
    • GSD (HOOMD GSD file)
    • IN, FHIAIMS (FHI-aims input files)
    • INPCRD, RESTRT (AMBER restart files)
    • ITP (GROMACS portable topology files)
    • LAMMPSDUMP (LAMMPS ascii dump file)
    • MMTF (Macromolecular Transmission Format)
    • MOL2 (Tripos structure)
    • NCDF, NC (AMBER NetCDF trajectory)
    • ParmEd (ParmEd Structure)
    • PDB, ENT (Standard PDB file)
    • PDBQT (Autodock structure)
    • PQR file (PDB2PQR / APBS)
    • PSF (CHARMM, NAMD, or XPLOR protein structure file)
    • TNG (Trajectory Next Generation)
    • TOP, PRMTOP, PARM7 (AMBER topology)
    • TPR (GROMACS run topology files)
    • TRJ, MDCRD, CRDBOX (AMBER ASCII trajectory)
    • TRR (GROMACS lossless trajectory file)
    • TRZ (IBIsCO and YASP trajectory)
    • TXYZ, ARC (Tinker)
    • XML (HOOMD)
    • XPDB (Extended PDB file)
    • XTC (GROMACS compressed trajectory file)
    • XYZ trajectory

Analysis

  • Analysis
  • Alignments and RMS fitting
  • Distances and contacts
  • Trajectory similarity
  • Structure
  • Volumetric analyses
  • Dimension reduction
  • Polymers and membranes
  • Hydrogen Bond Analysis
  • Writing your own trajectory analysis
  • Parallelizing analysis

Advanced

  • Standard residues in MDAnalysis selections
  • Advanced topology concepts
  • Example data

Contributing

  • Contributing to MDAnalysis
  • Contributing to the main codebase
  • Contributing to the user guide
  • Preparing a release
  • Module imports in MDAnalysis
  • Tests in MDAnalysis
  • References
MDAnalysis User Guide
  • Format reference
  • View page source

Format reference

  • chemfiles (chemfiles Trajectory or file)
  • CONFIG (DL_Poly Config)
  • HISTORY (DL_Poly Config)
  • COOR, NAMBDIN (NAMD binary restart files)
  • CRD (CHARMM CARD files)
  • DATA (LAMMPS)
  • DCD (CHARMM, NAMD, or LAMMPS trajectory)
  • DCD (Flexible LAMMPS trajectory)
  • DMS (Desmond Molecular Structure files)
  • GMS (Gamess trajectory)
  • GRO (GROMACS structure file)
  • GSD (HOOMD GSD file)
  • IN, FHIAIMS (FHI-aims input files)
  • INPCRD, RESTRT (AMBER restart files)
  • ITP (GROMACS portable topology files)
  • LAMMPSDUMP (LAMMPS ascii dump file)
  • MMTF (Macromolecular Transmission Format)
  • MOL2 (Tripos structure)
  • NCDF, NC (AMBER NetCDF trajectory)
  • ParmEd (ParmEd Structure)
  • PDB, ENT (Standard PDB file)
  • PDBQT (Autodock structure)
  • PQR file (PDB2PQR / APBS)
  • PSF (CHARMM, NAMD, or XPLOR protein structure file)
  • TNG (Trajectory Next Generation)
  • TOP, PRMTOP, PARM7 (AMBER topology)
  • TPR (GROMACS run topology files)
  • TRJ, MDCRD, CRDBOX (AMBER ASCII trajectory)
  • TRR (GROMACS lossless trajectory file)
  • TRZ (IBIsCO and YASP trajectory)
  • TXYZ, ARC (Tinker)
  • XML (HOOMD)
  • XPDB (Extended PDB file)
  • XTC (GROMACS compressed trajectory file)
  • XYZ trajectory
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