Hi all, the Protein Data Bank is finally moving toward what looks like a much better file binary format, the MMTF [1]. Among various things, it provides much higher efficiency in terms of parsing speed and size (i.e., the whole PDB would shrink from 29 to 7 Gb).
The format has already Python, Java and Javascript support, released under Apache license. I think this is an extremely promising and interesting move, and in my lab we're particularly interested in all the advantages that could bring over the now dated PDB format. In couple of days I'm going to attend to this event [2] where some of the people involved in the development of the format will give a 2 hours overview of the project. Since I think it would be interesting for the future development of OpenBabel, if any of the developers have suggestions about questions/requests to bring to them, I would be happy to 'relay' them. Otherwise, I can bring back some feedback to discuss with the community. Cheers, S [1] http://mmtf.rcsb.org/ [2] https://www.eventbrite.com/e/san-diego-bioinformatics-users-series-sdbus-tickets-26808343477 -- Stefano Forli, PhD Assistant Professor of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, Molecular Graphics Laboratory Dept. of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, MB-112A The Scripps Research Institute 10550 North Torrey Pines Road La Jolla, CA 92037-1000, USA. tel: +1 (858)784-2055 fax: +1 (858)784-2860 email: fo...@scripps.edu http://www.scripps.edu/~forli/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and traffic patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and protocols are consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for NetFlow, J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. Make informed decisions using capacity planning reports. http://sdm.link/zohodev2dev _______________________________________________ OpenBabel-Devel mailing list OpenBabel-Devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openbabel-devel
