gchemol

gchemol is a graph-based chemical object library implemented in Rust programming language. This project is still in early development.

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Features

How to use

Setup

follow the official guide:

add gchemol dependency to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
gchemol = "0.1"

Atom

use gchemol::Atom;

// construct from element and position
let a = Atom::new("C", [0.0, 0.0, 0.0]);
let b = Atom::new("C", [1.2, 1.2, 1.2]);

or simply convert from a string:

let a: Atom = "C 1.0 1.0 0.2"
    .parse()
    .expect("atom from string");

Molecule

  1. Creating a molecule manually

    use gchemol::Molecule;

let atoms = [
    Atom::new("C", [ 0.000000,   0.000000,  0.000000]),
    Atom::new("C", [ 0.000000,   0.000000,  1.089000]),
    Atom::new("C", [ 1.026719,   0.000000, -0.363000]),
    Atom::new("C", [-0.513360,  -0.889165, -0.363000]),
    Atom::new("C", [-0.513360,   0.889165, -0.363000])];

// create a molecule from these atoms
let mut mol = Molecule::from_atoms(atoms);

  2. Reading and writing molecules

    use gchemol::io;
use gchemol::prelude::*;
use gchemol::Molecule;

// Read an xyz file and write to a Gaussian Input file.
let mol = Molecule::from_file("path/to/file.xyz")?;
mol.to_file("methane.gjf")?;

// get the total number of atoms
let na = mol.natoms();
// get the total number of bonds
let nb = mol.nbonds();

// read multiple molecules (trajectory) from a chemical file
// the number of atoms in different frame could be different
let mols = io::read("path/to/trajectory.xyz")?;

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