Open Babel: OBConformerFilter Class Reference

Public Member Functions

# OBConformerFilter Class Reference
[Conformer Searching]

Interface used by OBConformerSearch for filtering conformers. More...

`#include <openbabel/conformersearch.h>`

Inheritance diagram for OBConformerFilter:

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## Public Member Functions
virtual bool | IsGood (const OBMol &mol, const RotorKey &key, double *coords)=0

## Detailed Description

Interface used by OBConformerSearch for filtering conformers.

The OBConformerFilter class defines an interface used by the OBConformerSearch class. A conformer filter is used as a first selection method when generating conformers. A typical example is a steric filter to ensure atoms are never closer than some specified distance.

See also:
  OBConformerSearch OBConformerFilters

Since:
  2.3

## Member Function Documentation

virtual bool IsGood | ( | const OBMol & | mol,
|  | const RotorKey & | key,
|  | double * | coords
| ) |  | `[pure virtual]`

Check if a conformer is good (i.e. passes the filter). The molecule, rotor key and coords are passed as parameters to this function and can be used for checking the confoormer.

Returns:
  True if the conformer passes the filter.

Implemented in OBConformerFilters, and OBStericConformerFilter.

The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

- conformersearch.h

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