Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your TPR file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert TPR to another file type
To convert your TPR file to another format, you need GROMACS or other Data software.
Convert a file to TPR
To convert other file formats to the "Simulation Input File" file type, you need software like GROMACS or a similar tool.
About TPR files
A .TPR file is primarily a GROMACS portable binary run input file, acting as a self-contained container for a molecular dynamics simulation. It compiles the topology (TOP), starting coordinates (GRO/PDB), and simulation parameters (MDP) into a single binary blob. While this makes the file portable across different machines, it is a main issue: the format is binary and cannot be read by human eyes or text editors, it is often version-specific (newer GROMACS versions can read old files, but not vice-versa), and extracting the original parameters requires command-line proficiency.
For scientific visualization, users typically need to convert the .TPR into a structure file like GRO or PDB to view the molecule in software like VMD or PyMOL. For auditing simulation parameters without the binary lock-in, converting or "dumping" the file to a readable text format is essential.
Secondarily, .TPR files may be Test Project Reports generated by Rohde & Schwarz testing tools. These are often XML-based but may be encrypted or obfuscated, making them difficult to share with clients who lack the specific testing suite. Converting these reports to standard PDF documents or CSV data ensures universal accessibility for project stakeholders.
Convert.Guru analyzes your TPR file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert TPR file to PDB, GRO, MP4, AVI, MOV, WMV, FLV, WEBM, MKV, M4V, 3GP or OGV, you can use GROMACS or similar software from the "Molecular Dynamics Run Input" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert MTS, MOV, RMVB, DIVX, RM, H264, TS, WMV, VOB, MP4, XVID or AVI files to TPR, try GROMACS or another comparable tool in the "Molecular Dynamics Run Input" category.
The TPR Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our TPR converter.