[gmx-developers] Python interface for Gromacs

[Christoph Junghans]

Hi Sébastien,

did you had a look at:

GromacsWrapper, a python framework to call gromacs tools
http://sbcb.bioch.ox.ac.uk/oliver/software/GromacsWrapper

mdanalysis, a python framework to analysis trajectories
http://code.google.com/p/mdanalysis/

Cheers,

Christoph

Quoting Sébastien Buchoux <sebastien.buchoux at u-picardie.fr>:

> Dear Gromacs developers,
>
> Interfacing Gromacs with Python have been discussed on this
> list last year (mainly here:
> http://lists.gromacs.org/pipermail/gmx-developers/2009-March/003177.html)  
> but,
> according to the Gromacs roadmap
> (http://www.gromacs.org/Developer_Zone/Roadmap), things are still to be done.
> Sorry if decisions were made in the meantime making this email out of scope.
>
> I have been using Gromacs for a few years now and lately I have been
> playing with Gromacs source code. More precisely, I wanted to interface
> some of the Gromacs core stuff (pbc, neighbour searching...) with Python.
> To do so, I used pure C extensions (no C types nor SWIG) to handle calls
> to the C libs and to define new Python types to store gromacs-friendly C
> objects while allowing a more "pythonic" way to access them. (This
> approach is actually close to what the Numpy/Scipy guys did.)
> This is still at pretty early stage but it could be extended to
> interface all the Gromacs libraries with Python.
>
> Where is my point? While I don't think inserting Python-related stuff
> directly into Gromacs source code would be a good idea, a kind of
> "official Python interface for Gromacs" developed at the same time as
> Gromacs would great because:
> - This would be a way to reflect Gromacs API changes into the interface
> more or less seamlessly.
> - "Modularizing the analysis tools" and "making the analysis library a
> true callable library" (cf. roadmap) could also be done.
> - One project would be more visible than a few ones.
> - Python is cool!
>
> What do you think?
>
> Sébastien
>
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