Unsupported Midas Commands

Midas was Chimera's predecessor program; although Chimera was not built upon Midas, its command set was developed with backwards compatibility in mind. Most Midas commands are now available in Chimera, plus a significant number of commands that are new in Chimera or have been made more powerful. Most of the Midas commands unsupported by Chimera have been rendered obsolete or replaced by other functionality.

• addgrp - see Build Structure
• assign
• brotation - see rotation reverse
• bs - see represent bs
• colorrename
• delegate, pickatom, pickabort

  Midas delegates included:

  • density - see Volume Viewer
  • discern
  • gd
  • label3d
  • midasmovie - see MD Movie
  • mrotate - see reset

• devopt
• fix - see Adjust Torsions
• fixreverse - see Adjust Torsions
• intensity - see yon intensity in the Effects tool
• link - see bond
• makems - see surface
• mark, makemark - see alias and naming selections
• midaspush, midaspop
• noeshow
• pdb2site
• pdbopen
• record - see Record in the Command History tool
• redraw
• reverse - see Adjust Torsions
• ribbonjr - see ribbon and Nucleotides
• run - see pdbrun, system
• setcom - but rock, roll, turn have been enhanced for much easier control over center of rotation
• speed
• stereoimg - see saving stereo images
• update
• vdwopt - see vdwdefine and vdwdensity
• watch, watchopt - see findclash

Other Unsupported Midas Features

• some Ctrl-key command-line editing options - in Chimera, Ctrl-u erases the command line contents, Ctrl-p switches to the previous command, and Ctrl-n switches to the next command, but further text-editing shortcuts are system-dependent
• Midas-style objects - however, the Chimera BILD format is similar and more extensive: planes and solid shapes can be defined in addition to points and lines