[chimera-dev] Chimera Plugin Question

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Joshua,
There are several Chimera plugins developed by others and available on the web.  The ones we know about are listed here:

<http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/plugins/plugins.html>

These are generally available from the developers’ websites, rather than a central repository.  After download, you have to use Chimera Preferences, category: Tools to specify the directory location(s) of external plugins for them to appear in the Tools menu.

One of the advantages of our new ChimeraX software is an associated central repository, the “Toolshed”, allowing developers to upload their plugins and users to install them easily.  However, ChimeraX is still in early stages without the full panoply of Chimera’s features, so it depends on what you want to do with this plugin.  ChimeraX is already available for download, though, and you can see more about it and the Toolshed here:

homepage
<http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/index.html>
shortlist of advantages and link to Toolshed
<http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/advantages.html>
programmer guide
<http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/devel/index.html>

Best,
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. 
UCSF Chimera(X) team
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco


> On Jul 3, 2017, at 6:45 AM, Broyde, Joshua E. <jb3401 at cumc.columbia.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I was wondering if it is possible to develop a custom plugin for Chimera that users would be able to download an use? Does Chimera allow this, or must all functionalities in Chimera be designed by the UCSF team? Ideally, this custom plugin would include new buttons to the chimera GUI as well.
> Sincerely,
> Joshua Broyde