Currently the library can write the Python hierarchy out as an mmCIF file, but cannot do the reverse, constructing a hierarchy from an existing mmCIF file. The latter would be useful to assist in displaying IHM mmCIF files in molecular viewers such as ChimeraX, to allow data to be easily extracted from the files, or to allow integrative models to be used as inputs for new modeling runs.
Currently the library can write the Python hierarchy out as an mmCIF file, but cannot do the reverse, constructing a hierarchy from an existing mmCIF file. The latter would be useful to assist in displaying IHM mmCIF files in molecular viewers such as ChimeraX, to allow data to be easily extracted from the files, or to allow integrative models to be used as inputs for new modeling runs.