MMTF-An efficient file format for the transmission, visualization, and analysis of macromolecular structures.

ABSTRACT: Recent advances in experimental techniques have led to a rapid growth in complexity, size, and number of macromolecular structures that are made available through the Protein Data Bank. This creates a challenge for macromolecular visualization and analysis. Macromolecular structure files, such as PDB or PDBx/mmCIF files can be slow to transfer, parse, and hard to incorporate into third-party software tools. Here, we present a new binary and compressed data representation, the MacroMolecular Transmission Format, MMTF, as well as software implementations in several languages that have been developed around it, which address these issues. We describe the new format and its APIs and demonstrate that it is several times faster to parse, and about a quarter of the file size of the current standa

SUBMITTER: Bradley AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5473584 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature