This is a short message to introduce a new software project named
bmrblib (https://gna.org/projects/bmrblib/). This project was spun
out of the relax BMRB branch and will be a relax dependency for BMRB
data deposition. The project is an interface, currently with only a
Python front end - though C and other language interfaces can later be
added, for reading and writing the NMR-STAR formatted files of the
BioMagResBank (http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu/). It was written to allow
relax (http://www.nmr-relax.com/) to produce NMR-STAR formatted files
for deposition of model-free dynamics data (and to read the data
downloaded from the BMRB for downstream research). It ships with
Jurgen F. Doreleijers' pystarlib (http://code.google.com/p/pystarlib/)
code, slightly modified, to read and write the basic STAR tags, but
provides a much higher level infrastructure abstracting the "saveframe
supergroup - saveframe - tag category - tag" hierarchy used by the
BMRB. Data is passed into *.add() functions as floats, strings, or
lists, and returned by *.loop() functions in the same format. The API
provided means that almost no knowledge of the NMR-STAR dictionary is
required to read and write BMRB NMR-STAR files. For compatibility,
bmrblib supports the different NMR-STAR format versions. It is
currently limited to data required for NMR relaxation and model-free
experiments, but can easily be extended by any interested parties.
Regards,
Edward
Announcing the bmrblib project (https://gna.org/projects/bmrblib/).