NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling & Visualization University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

MDF Plugin, Version 0.5

Molecular data file (.mdf) reader Insight II, Discover, etc. Structure and bond information. This plugin reads only the topology section, ignoring the optional symmertry and atomset sections.

Format specification can be found at: http://instinct.v24.uthscsa.edu/~hincklab/html/soft_packs/msi_docs/insight980/formats980/File_Formats_1998.html#484257

Notes:

Read-only
This plugin is used only to read files. VMD does not currently support writing this file type.

TODO:
The current code reads the file *four* times -- once on open, once to read the structure, and twice to read the bonds. Perhaps these could be consolidated, e.g. by counting the bonds and populating the hash tables during open or read_structure.

Funded by a grant from
the National Institute of
General Medical Sciences
of the National Institutes
of Health

Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology // National Institutes of Health // National Science Foundation // Physics, Computer Science, and Biophysics at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign