Hi Axel,

Imagine you are working on open source project which can handle mrv
files. In such a case you probably wouldn't like to use external
proprietary software and this is exactly my case.

Michał

On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Axel Pahl <chemis...@gmx.de> wrote:
> Dear Micha,
>
> have you considered using the commandline tool molconvert that is part of
> MarvinSketch, which can do just that (and many other things):
>
> molconvert mol mol.mrv -o mol.mol
>
>
>
> It should be under bin/ in the Marvin installation
>
>
>
> for batch processing you can e.g. use a small shell script:
>
> for f in *.mrv; do
>   echo "  converting $f..."
>   BN=$(basename $f .mrv)
>   molconvert mol $f -o $BN.mol
> done
>
> Hope, this helps.
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Axel
>
>
>
>> A question I have is why you want to access the bond wedging.
>
> This is very good question so I will begin with answering this. I'm
> writing a module, which converts *mrv files to molfiles, both ways. In
> my case, the original mrv file looks like this:
>
> <cml><MDocument><MChemicalStruct><molecule molID="m1"><atomArray><atom
> id="a1" elementType="C" x2="-3.1249866416667733"
> y2="-0.5015733293207466"/><atom id="a2" elementType="C"
> x2="-4.458533297665067" y2="-1.2715733231607467"/><atom id="a3"
> elementType="C" x2="-4.458533297665067" y2="-2.81175997750592"/><atom
> id="a4" elementType="C" x2="-3.1249866416667733"
> y2="-3.58175997134592"/><atom id="a5" elementType="C"
> x2="-1.7912533190033066" y2="-2.81175997750592"/><atom id="a6"
> elementType="C" x2="-1.7912533190033066"
> y2="-1.2715733231607467"/><atom id="a7" elementType="C"
> x2="-0.45751999633984003" y2="-0.5013866626555733"/><atom id="a8"
> elementType="O" x2="-0.45751999633984003"
> y2="1.0384266583592534"/><atom id="a9" elementType="C"
> x2="0.87583999299328" y2="-1.2713866564955734"/><atom id="a10"
> elementType="C" x2="0.87583999299328"
> y2="-2.8113866441755735"/></atomArray><bondArray><bond atomRefs2="a1
> a2" order="2"/><bond atomRefs2="a2 a3" order="1"/><bond atomRefs2="a3
> a4" order="2"/><bond atomRefs2="a4 a5" order="1"/><bond atomRefs2="a5
> a6" order="2"/><bond atomRefs2="a6 a1" order="1"/><bond atomRefs2="a6
> a7" order="1"/><bond atomRefs2="a7 a9" order="1"/><bond atomRefs2="a9
> a10" order="1"/><bond atomRefs2="a7 a8"
> order="1"><bondStereo>W</bondStereo></bond></bondArray></molecule></MChemicalStruct></MDocument></cml>
>
> It's easy to spot, that the last bond have additional tag -
> "bondStereo" with value 'W'. Looking at this specification
> http://download.accelrys.com/freeware/ctfile-formats/ctfile-formats.zip,
> page 50 I can see that this can be translated into '1' in 4th field in
> bond block and the field is called 'bond stereo', the same as mrv's
> bond tag - this is the actual reason why I've used term 'stereo' in my
> email. So the resulting molfile looks like this:
>
>
>
>
> 10 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0999 V2000
> -1.6741 -0.2687 0.0000 C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
> -2.3885 -0.6812 0.0000 C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
> -2.3885 -1.5063 0.0000 C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
> -1.6741 -1.9188 0.0000 C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
> -0.9596 -1.5063 0.0000 C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
> -0.9596 -0.6812 0.0000 C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
> -0.2451 -0.2686 0.0000 C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
> -0.2451 0.5563 0.0000 O 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
> 0.4692 -0.6811 0.0000 C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
> 0.4692 -1.5061 0.0000 C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
> 1 2 2 0 0 0 0
> 2 3 1 0 0 0 0
> 3 4 2 0 0 0 0
> 4 5 1 0 0 0 0
> 5 6 2 0 0 0 0
> 6 1 1 0 0 0 0
> 6 7 1 0 0 0 0
> 7 9 1 0 0 0 0
> 9 10 1 0 0 0 0
> 7 8 1 1 0 0 0
> M END
>
> Now imagine I only have this molfile and I want to convert it back to
> *mrv. I don't want to write my own parser for molfiles when I know
> that RDKit can already parse it. But I need to extract this 'bond
> stereo' information from within RDKit somehow.
>
> Now when you say that this '1' or 'W' value corresponds to bond
> direction, I'm guessing that 'direction' can store only two values: up
> and down so '1' and '6' ('W' and 'H' in marvin terms). So what about
> other values which this field can have, If for example I have this
> molfile:
>
>
>
> 10 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0999 V2000
> -1.6741 -0.2687 0.0000 C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
> -2.3885 -0.6812 0.0000 C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
> -2.3885 -1.5063 0.0000 C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
> -1.6741 -1.9188 0.0000 C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
> -0.9596 -1.5063 0.0000 C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
> -0.9596 -0.6812 0.0000 C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
> -0.2451 -0.2686 0.0000 C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
> -0.2451 0.5563 0.0000 O 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
> 0.4692 -0.6811 0.0000 C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
> 0.4692 -1.5061 0.0000 C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
> 1 2 2 0 0 0 0
> 2 3 1 0 0 0 0
> 3 4 2 0 0 0 0
> 4 5 1 0 0 0 0
> 5 6 2 0 0 0 0
> 6 1 1 0 0 0 0
> 6 7 1 0 0 0 0
> 7 9 1 0 0 0 0
> 9 10 1 0 0 0 0
> 7 8 1 4 0 0 0
> M END
>
> So 4 instead of 1, how I will get this information from RDKit?
>
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