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36 /*! \defgroup module_selection Parsing and Evaluation of Analysis Selections (selection)
37 * \ingroup group_analysismodules
38 * \brief
39 * Provides functionality for initializing and evaluating selections.
41 * The core of the selection engine is accessed through
42 * gmx::SelectionCollection, which manages a set of selections.
43 * Documentation for that class explains the general selection mechanisms.
45 * For each selection that is parsed using a gmx::SelectionCollection, a
46 * gmx::Selection handle is returned and can be used to access information
47 * about that selection. gmx::SelectionPosition is a helper class used to
48 * access information about individual positions in a selection. These classes
49 * refer to internal state within the gmx::SelectionCollection, and their
50 * contents update automatically when the gmx::SelectionCollection is compiled
51 * or evaluated.
53 * This module also provides gmx::SelectionOption and gmx::SelectionOptionInfo
54 * classes for declaring options that evaluate to selections (see \ref
55 * module_options for general explanation of the options mechanism). These
56 * classes provide the main interface to obtain gmx::Selection objects in
57 * trajectory analysis using gmx::TrajectoryAnalysisModule.
58 * To use these classes outside the trajectory analysis framework,
59 * a gmx::SelectionOptionManager or a gmx::SelectionOptionBehavior needs to be
60 * created to serve as a bridge between the selection option classes and the
61 * gmx::SelectionCollection object.
62 * \if libapi
63 * gmx::SelectionFileOption can be used to implement generic file input for
64 * selection options (done internally within gmx::SelectionOptionBehavior).
66 * The selection module contains some lower-level functionality that is
67 * currently internal to it (centerofmass.h, indexutil.h, poscalc.h,
68 * position.h), but could possibly be useful also outside the module.
69 * It should be considered whether they should be moved somewhere else.
70 * \endif
72 * \author Teemu Murtola <teemu.murtola@gmail.com>
74 /*! \file
75 * \brief
76 * Public API convenience header for selection handling.
78 * \author Teemu Murtola <teemu.murtola@gmail.com>
79 * \inpublicapi
80 * \ingroup module_selection
82 #ifndef GMX_SELECTION_H
83 #define GMX_SELECTION_H
85 #include "gromacs/selection/selection.h"
86 #include "gromacs/selection/selectioncollection.h"
87 #include "gromacs/selection/selectionoption.h"
88 #include "gromacs/selection/selectionoptionbehavior.h"
89 #include "gromacs/selection/selectionoptionmanager.h"
91 #endif