On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 10:53:55AM +0000, Kevin Cowtan wrote:
> You are absolutely right! The difficulty in getting from MTZ to any
> other format or back is unacceptable. Expecting working
> crystallographers to write Fortran format statements is ridiculous. I've
> been trying to address this by adding support for other formats to
> clipper, but my pace has been glacial, owing to the limited academic
> rewards for such work. Even then, it needs someone to put together an
> application and GUI to use it with.
>
I posit that if the CCP4 format was open (i.e. the CCP4C/F libraries
were covered by an OSI/FSF approved license) and deposited in a
reasonable code repository, then there exists the potential assistance
of the entire public domain to standardize/extend/improve the library
functions and ABIs (with, of course, oversight by the CCP4 folks). I
know I would be far more inclined to help if such was the case.
Regards,
Tim
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