INTRODUCTION
The Coordinate Library is designed to assist CCP4 developers in working with coordinate files. The major source of coordinate information remains the PDB files, although more information becomes available in mmCIF format.
The Library features working with both file formats plus an internal binary format portable between different platforms. This is achieved at uniformity of the Library's interface functions, so that there is no difference in handling different formats.
The Library provides various high-level tools for working with coordinate files, which include not only reading and writing, but also orthogonal-fractional coordinate transforms, generation of symmetry mates, editing the molecular structure and some others. The Library is supposed as a general low-level tool for unifying the coordinate-related operations.