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package org.biojava.nbio.structure;

import org.biojava.nbio.structure.io.PDBFileReader;
import org.junit.Test;

import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.ObjectInputStream;
import java.io.ObjectOutputStream;

import static org.junit.Assert.*;

/**
 * Test the serialization and deserialization of BioJava structure objects.
 * 
 * @author Aleix Lafita
 *
 */
public class TestStructureSerialization {

	@Test
	public void testSerializeStructure() throws IOException, StructureException, ClassNotFoundException {

		PDBFileReader reader = new PDBFileReader();
		reader.getFileParsingParameters().setParseSecStruc(true);
		Structure sin = reader.getStructure("src/test/resources/2gox.pdb");

		// Serialize the structure object and keep it in memory
		ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
		ObjectOutputStream objectOut = new ObjectOutputStream(baos);
		objectOut.writeObject(sin);
		objectOut.close();
		byte[] bytes = baos.toByteArray();
		
		// Deserialize the bytes back into a structure object
		ByteArrayInputStream bais = new ByteArrayInputStream(bytes);
		ObjectInputStream objectIn = new ObjectInputStream(bais);
		Structure sout = (Structure) objectIn.readObject();
		objectIn.close();
		
		// Test properties of the structures before and after serialization
		assertEquals(sin.nrModels(), sout.nrModels());
		assertEquals(sin.getChains().size(), sout.getChains().size());
		assertEquals(sin.getName(), sout.getName());
		
	}
}

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Add a more complete check to structure serialization test