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
