Gromacs XPM file format

Gromacs stores matrix data in the xpm file format. This implementation of a Python reader is based on Tsjerk Wassenaar’s post to gmx-users numerical matrix from xpm file (Mon Oct 4 13:05:26 CEST 2010). This version returns a NumPy array and can guess an appropriate dtype for the array.

Classes

class gromacs.fileformats.xpm.XPM(filename=None, **kwargs)

Class to make a Gromacs XPM matrix available as a NumPy numpy.ndarray.

The data is available in the attribute XPM.array.

Note

By default, the rows (2nd dimension) in the XPM.array are re-ordered so that row 0 (i.e. array[:,0] corresponds to the first residue/hydrogen bond/etc. The original xpm matrix is obtained for reverse = False. The XPM reader always reorders the XPM.yvalues (obtained from the xpm file) to match the order of the rows.

Initialize xpm structure.

Arguments:

filename

read from mdp file

autoconvert

try to guess the type of the output array from the colour legend [True]

reverse

reverse rows (2nd dimension): re-orders the rows so that the first row corresponds e.g. to the first residue or first H-bonds and not the last) [True]

xvalues

Values of on the x-axis, extracted from the xpm file.

yvalues

Values of on the y-axis, extracted from the xpm file. These are in the same order as the rows in the xpm matrix. If reverse = False then this is typically a descending list of numbers (highest to lowest residue number, index number, etc). For reverse = True it is resorted accordingly.

COLOUR = <_sre.SRE_Pattern object>

compiled regular expression to parse the colors in the xpm file:

static char *gromacs_xpm[] = {
"14327 9   2 1",
"   c #FFFFFF " /* "None" */,
"o  c #FF0000 " /* "Present" */,

Matches are named “symbol”, “color” (hex string), and “value”. “value” is typically autoconverted to appropriate values with gromacs.fileformats.convert.Autoconverter. The symbol is matched as a printable ASCII character in the range 0x20 (space) to 0x7E (~).

array

XPM matrix as a numpy.ndarray.

The attribute itself cannot be assigned a different array but the contents of the array can be modified.

col(c)

Parse colour specification

parse()

Parse the xpm file and populate XPM.array.

read(filename=None)

Read and parse mdp file filename.

static uncomment(s)

Return string s with C-style comments /* ... */ removed.

static unquote(s)

Return string s with quotes " removed.

Example: Analysing H-bonds

Run gromacs.g_hbond() to produce the existence map (and the log file for the atoms involved in the bonds; the ndx file is also useful):

gromacs.g_hbond(s=TPR, f=XTC, g="hbond.log", hbm="hb.xpm", hbn="hb.ndx")

Load the XPM:

hb = XPM("hb.xpm", reverse=True)

Calculate the fraction of time that each H-bond existed:

hb_fraction = hb.array.mean(axis=0)

Get the descriptions of the bonds:

desc = [line.strip() for line in open("hbond.log") if not line.startswith('#')]

Note

It is important that reverse=True is set so that the rows in the xpm matrix are brought in the same order as the H-bond labels.

Show the results:

print "\n".join(["%-40s %4.1f%%" % p for p in zip(desc, 100*hb_fraction)])

See also

gromacs.analysis.plugins.hbonds