[chimera-dev] Wrapping Chimera in a Java program

[Fabrice Jossinet]

Dear developers,

I would like to launch Chimera from my Java program. I would like to  
send messages to Chimera to highlight in its own display selections I  
do in my Java program's display. I already did that with PyMOL using a  
pipe communication.

So, several questions:
- is it possible to start Chimera from a classical python distribution  
(not the embedded python of Chimera)? One of my ideas is to start  
Chimera from Jython, a Java implementation of Python
- is it possible to communicate with Chimera using a pipe ?
- and the most general question: is it possible to communicate with  
Chimera from the outside?

Thank you for your answers

Fabrice

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Dr. Fabrice Jossinet
Laboratoire de Bioinformatique, modelisation et simulation des acides
nucleiques
Universite Louis Pasteur
Institut de biologie moleculaire et cellulaire du CNRS
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