---
name: "travis"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "travis"
version: "220729-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/travis"
---

# travis(1)

Trajectory Analyzer and Visualizer

## NAME

travis - Trajectory Analyzer and Visualizer

## SYNOPSIS

**travis** \[**options**\] \[*file*\]

## DESCRIPTION

**travis** is a Trajectory Analyzer and Visualizer (TRAVIS), a free tool for analyzing and visualizing trajectories from all kinds of Molecular Dynamics or Monte Carlo simulations. The aim of **TRAVIS** is to collect as many analyses as possible in one program, creating a powerful tool and making it unnecessary to use many different programs for evaluating simulations. This should greatly rationalize and simplify the workflow of analyzing trajectories.

## OPTIONS

If only one parameter is specified, it is assumed to be the name of a trajectory *file*.

The program supports the following options:

- **-p** *file*

  Loads position data from the specified trajectory *file*. The file format may be XYZ (.xyz), PDB (.pdb), LAMMPS (.lmp) or DLPOLY (file name  *HISTORY* without an extension). If this option is not set, the trajectory file to open will be asked for.

- **-i** *file*

  Reads input from the specified text *file*.

- **-stream**

  Treats input trajectory as a stream (e.g. named pipe)

- **-config** *file*

  Load the specified configuration *file*.

- **-showconf**

  Shows a tree structure of the configuration file.

- **-writeconf**

  Writes the default configuration file.

- **-nocolor**

  Execute in monochrome mode.

- **-dimcolor**

  Uses dim instead of bright colors.

- **-verbose**

  Show detailed information about what's going on.

- **-help, -?**

  Show help screen.

## FILES

- *travis.log*, *#1#travis.log*, *#2#travis.log*, ...

  Session log file(s).

- *travis.conf*, *~/travis.conf*

  Configuration file(s).

## BUGS

**Never** do run more than one instance of TRAVIS in the same directory at the same time as every instance will try to access the same log file and at least one of it will crash.

## CITATION

Please cite **TRAVIS** as follows:

-

  M. Brehm and B. Kirchner: "TRAVIS - A free Analyzer and Visualizer for Monte Carlo and Molecular Dynamics Trajectories", J. Chem. Inf. Model., 2011, 51(8), pp 2007-2023, DOI 10.1021/ci200217w.

## AUTHORS

This manual page was written by **Daniel Leidert** \<dleidert@debian.org\> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).