BinaryCIF and CIFTools—Lightweight, efficient and extensible macromolecular data management
Fig 4
Read performance of JavaScript implementation.
Average single-threaded parsing time for 154,015 PDB structures is given in minutes. Reading of binary data (BinaryCIF and MMTF) can provide a dramatic speedup. Handling gzipped files slows down parsing in most cases. Read performance can be easily improved by omitting less used meta-information as seen for the pruned bins.