[OTDev] [quixote-qcdb] Re: [BlueObelisk-discuss] Quixote project for computational chemistry and future possibilities for Blue Obelisk

Peter Murray-Rust pm286 at cam.ac.uk
Mon Oct 25 14:51:38 CEST 2010


On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Egon Willighagen <
egon.willighagen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Nina,
>
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk>
> wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Nina Jeliazkova <
> jeliazkova.nina at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> For gaussian files it should be feasible as well, does CDK reads
> gaussian files ?
> >
> > JUMBO does and the transofrmation is designed to be lossless by using a
> dictionary structure.
>
> CDK has only a minimal Gaussian readers, that extracts 3D coordinates,
> and might actually do vibrations, but nothing much else.
>
> I think what we will want to do, is extend the CDK CMLReader to
> understand the CMLComp conventions...


That's exactly the right way to go. A typical CMLComp document (from a log
file) might include modules such as init; optimisation, final coords,
Hessian, Frequencies, NMR calculations.



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Peter Murray-Rust
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Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
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