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MDAnalysis is an object-oriented Python library to analyze trajectories from molecular dynamics (MD) simulations in many popular formats. It can write most of these formats, too, together with atom selections suitable for visualization or native analysis tools.

MDAnalysis allows one to read particle-based trajectories (including individual coordinate frames such as biomolecules in the PDB format) and access the atomic coordinates through NumPy arrays. This provides a flexible and relatively fast framework for complex analysis tasks. In addition, powerful atom selection commands are implemented. Trajectories can also be manipulated (for instance, fit to a reference structure) and written out. The basic example demonstrates some of these features.

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• installation quick start
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Availability

All source code is available under the GNU General Public License, version 2 (or an open source licence compatible with GPLv2) from github.com/MDAnalysis and the Python Package index pypi.python.org/pypi/MDAnalysis.

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