Formats supported by SAMSON

SAMSON supports a number of formats for importing and exporting various data (molecular systems, meshes, etc).

SAMSON has its own formats (SAM, SAMX) that support an extensive variety of types of data that can be opened, created, and saved by SAMSON, among them are molecular structures, groups, visual models, meshes, animations, notes, simulators (interaction models and state updaters), etc.

Below you will find a non-comprehensive list of formats supported in SAMSON for importing and exporting various types of data. Most of these formats are available with SAMSON right away, but for some, it is necessary to add an extension (click on the extension link). Please note that SAMSON extensions might support additional formats that are not listed here.

If you did not find the format below and you would like us to add it to SAMSON please contact us via the Forum or send feedback directly from SAMSON.

Import

The main formats that SAMSON supports for importing data are listed below.

Molecular structures

CIF for crystal structures and CIF for protein structures (PDBx/mmCIF), CML, CSSR, GRO, MMTF, MOL2, MOL, PDB (including ENT, VDB, PDB1, PDB2, …), PDBx/mmCIF, SDF, SD, XYZ, ARC (Tinker).

Archives: GZ.

Molecular trajectories

GROMACS trajectories: XTC, TNG, TRR, TRJ.

DCD trajectories (DCD) and PSF structure files.

NetCDF trajectories (NC, NCDF, NCTRAJ) and data structure files (prmtop, parm7).

LAMMPS trajectories (LAMMPSTRJ) and data files (LMP).

DNA origami

Adenita: ADN, ADNPART, JSON, PLY.

Meshes

OBJ, STL.

Images

Loaded as a mesh or a visual model: BMP, GIF, JPG, PBM, PNG, PPM, XBM, XPM.

Scripts

Python scripts: py. Needs to have the Python Scripting extension available.

Export

The main formats that SAMSON supports for exporting data are listed below.

Molecular structures

GRO, MOL2, PDB, SDF, SMI, XYZ.

Molecular trajectories

GROMACS trajectories: XTC, TRR.

DCD trajectories (DCD).

NetCDF trajectories (NC).

DNA origami

Adenita: ADN, ADNPART, JSON, PLY.

Meshes

OBJ

Images

BMP, JPG, PNG.

Movies/Animations

GIF, MP4, WEBM.