Goals for the next version of libmol

• Separate loading atoms prm from loading pdb
• specifically, this means read_pdb_nopar should be the default behavior
• separate function to attach atoms prm to an atomgrp should be created
• Mutations?
• Linux Kernel Coding Standards
• uniform interfaces for object creation, freeing/destroying, and copying
• Read all information from a pdb ATOM line necessary to write out a pdb ATOM line
• Lab contribution directly to open source libmol (requires lab separation of proprietary libgrid and open source libmol)
• Unit testing, make use of continuous integration tools that give free testing to open source projects
• streaming

Resources

• Automate your Coding Standard
• The Golden Rule of API Design
• API Design Principles
• The Little Manual of API Design
• How to Design a Good API and Why It Matters
• Designing and Evaluating Reusable Components
• pthreads as a case study of good API design
• The Implementation of Lua 5
• Beautiful Native Libraries