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[Nico Kruithof <>]

Hi Samuel,

Daniel Russel added his library  to the CGAL repository for me when I wrote the skin surface package. It was an easy way to demonstrate how to mesh a protein described by a pdb file. I don't know of any other uses within CGAL.

Bests,

Nico

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Laurent Rineau (GeometryFactory) <> wrote:

On Thursday 28 January 2010 12:25:19 Samuel Hornus wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> The CGAL distribution (3.5.1) contains a lot of code (headers and a
> libCGAL_PDB) for reading and inspecting PDB files. Yet, it seems that
> no documentation is available (on CGAL's website), or did I miss
> it?
> - Is it useless code that should be removed from the library at some
>   point in the future?
> - Or is it code that will stay in CGAL (that I can count on being
>   maintained) and which should be documented?

That piece of code, like libCGAL_ImageIO, is only used internally and is not
documented. It will not be documented in the future, and may be replaced by
another way of reading PDB files.

If you are looking for a PDB reading library, that is maintained, you could
try:
  http://esbtl.sourceforge.net/

--
Laurent Rineau, PhD
R&D Engineer at GeometryFactory           http://www.geometryfactory.com/
Release Manager of the CGAL Project       http://www.cgal.org/

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