Form

MolSysMT is built on a form-agnostic architecture capable of ingesting, querying, and converting between dozens of data representations—including native memory containers, third-party library classes, disk file formats, and in-memory text representations.

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Form Categories

Category	Description
Class Forms	In-memory object classes from MolSysMT and external libraries
File Forms	On-disk file formats (PDB, H5MSM, GRO, CIF, XTC, DCD, etc.)
String Forms	In-memory string forms (PDB text, sequences, SMILES, IDs)

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Form Operations

Operation	Description
Get attributes	Querying full attribute dictionaries for forms
Has attribute	Checking specific attribute availability in forms
Is item	Validating if an object is an instanced item of any form
Is file	Checking if an item or form names an on-disk file
Is string	Checking if an item or form names an in-memory string
Close	Closing open file handlers and streams for resource forms