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A primer on software development best practices for computational chemistry
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Add admonition against crafting your own file formats #52

Open jchodera opened 6 years ago

jchodera commented 6 years ago

We should add a section of file parsing and file formats, recommending practitioners do not create their own one-off file formats if another existing well-supported and portable format exists. For example, MDTraj provides access to a number of common file formats, and HDF5 and NetCDF file formats are robust, flexible, and extremely well-supported.

mpharrigan commented 6 years ago

+1