[Debichem-devel] Bug#966019: RFP: python-gsd -- native file format for HOOMD-blue

[Drew Parsons]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-Cc: debichem-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org, debian-science at lists.debian.org, debian-python at lists.debian.org
Control: block 962440 by -1

* Package name    : python-gsd
  Version         : 2.1.2
  Upstream Author : Joshua A. Anderson et al, University of Michigan
* URL             : https://gsd.readthedocs.io
* License         : BSD-2
  Programming Lang: Python
  Description     : native file format for HOOMD-blue

The GSD file format is the native file format for HOOMD-blue. GSD
files store trajectories of the HOOMD-blue system state in a binary
file with efficient random access to frames. GSD allows all particle
and topology properties to vary from one frame to the next. Use the
GSD Python API to specify the initial condition for a HOOMD-blue
simulation or analyze trajectory output with a script. Read a GSD
trajectory with a visualization tool to explore the behavior of the
simulation.

Required by mdanalysis.

Suitable for package within the Debichem team, but the Debian Science
Team or Debian Python Module Team could also maintain it.