[SciPy-User] Request for obscure text formats

[David Menéndez Hurtado]

PDB for protein structures and biomolecules is meant to be machine
readable, but it is a mess, with lots of special cases and variations. In
particular, some of the common pain points I experienced were variations
(for example, a given atom may have different alternate positions) and the
hierarchical nature of the molecule that is not well represented in the
file format (proteins are composed of chains, that are made of amino acids,
which are formed by atoms).

http://www.wwpdb.org/documentation/file-format-content/format33/v3.3.html

On Sat, 26 Jun 2021, 2:54 pm David Hagen, <david at drhagen.com> wrote:

> Scientists,
>
> I am looking for examples of obscure text file formats. These files
> are often generated by scientific instruments to be read by their
> proprietary software. Or they might come from a program not intended
> to be machine readable. These examples are for some motivation slides
> for my SciPy conference talk [1] on Parsita.
>
> If you have an example, please send it my way. If you don't want to
> send a whole file, enough text to fill a slide is sufficient.
>
> Thanks so much!
>
> David Hagen
>
>
> [1] https://www.scipy2021.scipy.org/schedule
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