MMTF C API and decoder

The macromolecular transmission format (MMTF) is a binary encoding of biological structures.

This repository holds the C compatible API and decoding library.

For a C++ API and encoding/decoding library, see https://github.com/rcsb/mmtf-cpp

Dependencies

• msgpack-c >=1.0 (e.g. libmsgpack-dev on Debian)

Examples

• demo.c: Load a MMTF file
• traverse.c: Iterate over atoms and bonds

Usage

The library is a single C file, mmtf_parser.c, and an accompanying header file, mmtf_parser.h. Copy both to your project and compile them with your other C files.

For example, here are the command lines to compile a demo using the MMTF parser:

gcc -c mmtf_parser.c
gcc -c demo.c
gcc -o demo mmtf_parser.o demo.o -lmsgpackc

Projects using mmtf-c

• PyMOL uses mmtf-c for loading MMTF files (and mmtf-cpp for exporting them)