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Supported File Formats and Options
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Chemists are a very imaginative group. They keep thinking of new file formats.
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Chemists are a very imaginative group. They keep thinking of new file
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formats.
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Indeed, these are not just simple differences in how chemical
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data is stored, but often completely different views on molecular
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representations. For example, some file formats ignore hydrogen atoms
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as "implicit," while others do not store bonding information. This is,
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in fact, a key reason for Open Babel's existence.
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OpenBabel has support for 145 formats in total. It can read 107 formats and can write 107 formats. These formats are identified by a name (for example, ``ShelX format``) and one or more short codes (in this case, ``ins`` or ``res``). The titles of each section provide this information (for example, :ref:`ShelX_format`).
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