The MacroMolecular Transmission Format (MMTF) is a binary encoding of biological structures. For a general introduction to the format visit the website.
The following encoding/decoding libaries implementing the specification are available:
⚠️ Please note that while the specification and tools for the MMTF format are still available, up-to-date MMTF files for the PDB archive will not be produced anymore from July 2024. Users are strongly encouraged to migrate to the BinaryCIF format. Details on how to access BinaryCIF(BCIF) data files for the entire PDB archive are available here.