Add compress()
function to decrease the file size of BinaryCIF files
#674
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When data is set in
BinaryCIFFile
objects (e.g viaset_structure()
), a simple default encoding is used which does not compress the data. Although this is fast, the resulting files can be significantly larger. This PR introduces thecompress()
function, which takes an existingBinaryCIF...
object and createsBinaryCIF...
object with size-optimized encoding.The resulting files are significantly smaller than the uncompressed ones and even quite a bit smaller than the ones originating from the PDB. The following example shows the size for
1L2Y
: