4.17. Base topology reader classes — MDAnalysis.topology.base

Derive topology reader classes from the base class in this module. All topology readers raise IOError upon failing to read a topology file and ValueError upon failing to make sense of the read data.

4.17.1. Classes

class MDAnalysis.topology.base.TopologyReader(filename, universe=None, guess_bonds_mode=False, **kwargs)[source]

Base class for topology readers

All topology readers must:
  • Be initialised with a filename
  • Return a struct dict by calling their parse function
Raises:
  • IOError upon failing to read a topology file
  • ValueError upon failing to make sense of the read data

New in version 0.9.0.

Changed in version 0.9.2: Added keyword ‘universe’ to pass to Atom creation.

Standard arguments for a TopologyReader:

Arguments:
filename

name of the topology file

Keywords:
universe

Supply a Universe to the Parser. This then passes it to the atom instances that are created within parsers.

guess_bonds_mode
  • True: attempt to derive bonds from a distance search if no connectivity information is available or parsed
  • False: only load a list of atoms (and possibly identify residues and segments)
  • default: False
kwargs

Other keyword arguments that can vary with the specific format. These are stored as self.kwargs

close()

Close the trajectory file.

close_trajectory()

Specific implementation of trajectory closing.

convert_forces_from_native(force, inplace=True)

In-place conversion of forces array force from native units to base units.

By default, the input force is modified in place and also returned.

New in version 0.7.7.

convert_forces_to_native(force, inplace=True)

In-place conversion of force array force from base units to native units.

By default, the input force is modified in place and also returned.

New in version 0.7.7.

convert_pos_from_native(x, inplace=True)

In-place conversion of coordinate array x from native units to base units.

By default, the input x is modified in place and also returned.

Changed in version 0.7.5: Keyword inplace can be set to False so that a modified copy is returned unless no conversion takes place, in which case the reference to the unmodified x is returned.

convert_pos_to_native(x, inplace=True)

Conversion of coordinate array x from base units to native units.

By default, the input x is modified in place and also returned.

Changed in version 0.7.5: Keyword inplace can be set to False so that a modified copy is returned unless no conversion takes place, in which case the reference to the unmodified x is returned.

convert_time_from_native(t, inplace=True)

Convert time t from native units to base units.

By default, the input t is modified in place and also returned (although note that scalar values t are passed by value in Python and hence an in-place modification has no effect on the caller.)

Changed in version 0.7.5: Keyword inplace can be set to False so that a modified copy is returned unless no conversion takes place, in which case the reference to the unmodified x is returned.

convert_time_to_native(t, inplace=True)

Convert time t from base units to native units.

By default, the input t is modified in place and also returned. (Also note that scalar values t are passed by value in Python and hence an in-place modification has no effect on the caller.)

Changed in version 0.7.5: Keyword inplace can be set to False so that a modified copy is returned unless no conversion takes place, in which case the reference to the unmodified x is returned.

convert_velocities_from_native(v, inplace=True)

In-place conversion of velocities array v from native units to base units.

By default, the input v is modified in place and also returned.

New in version 0.7.5.

convert_velocities_to_native(v, inplace=True)

In-place conversion of coordinate array v from base units to native units.

By default, the input v is modified in place and also returned.

New in version 0.7.5.