{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ParmEd/ParmEd/issues/508","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ParmEd/ParmEd/issues/508/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ParmEd/ParmEd/issues/508/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ParmEd/ParmEd/issues/508/events","html_url":"https://github.com/ParmEd/ParmEd/issues/508","id":122662628,"number":508,"title":"discussion about supporting more formats","user":{"login":"hainm","id":4451957,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4451957?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/hainm","html_url":"https://github.com/hainm","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/hainm/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/hainm/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/hainm/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/hainm/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/hainm/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/hainm/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/hainm/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/hainm/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/hainm/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2015-12-17T05:14:08Z","updated_at":"2015-12-17T05:19:05Z","closed_at":null,"body":"I am thinking about adding parser for some formats: sdf, lammps, xyz, ...\r\n\r\nAny idea where I should add? to sandbox?\r\n\r\ngiven that only supporting reading to Structure (not writing, no force field pars).\r\n\r\nMy aim is quite simple:\r\n- I want to use ParmEd to read some extra files (that cpptraj does not support) for molecule viewer https://github.com/hainm/nglview \r\n\r\n- I don't want to make those parsers to pytraj since I want the pytraj API is consistent for all supported formats (like pytraj can load to in and out of core trajectory --> means: out of core trajectory parser code must be in C++, inherited from cpptraj's class)."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ParmEd/ParmEd/issues/comments/165340754","html_url":"https://github.com/ParmEd/ParmEd/issues/508#issuecomment-165340754","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ParmEd/ParmEd/issues/508","id":165340754,"user":{"login":"mrshirts","id":4274132,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4274132?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/mrshirts","html_url":"https://github.com/mrshirts","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mrshirts/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mrshirts/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mrshirts/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mrshirts/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mrshirts/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mrshirts/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mrshirts/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mrshirts/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mrshirts/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-12-17T05:19:05Z","updated_at":"2015-12-17T05:19:05Z","body":"Jason Swails, Christoph Klein, and I have been talking about working towards merging ParmEd and InterMol (https://github.com/shirtsgroup/InterMol), which currently supports LAMMPS, Desmond, and Gromacs. There are some nice approaches in InterMol that make it more extensible, though it's definitely less polished than ParmEd."}}