[Chimera-users] PDB-file trajectories

[Eric Pettersen]

On Thursday, January 8, 2004, at 06:52 AM, amutha ramaswamy wrote:

> It is possible to make movies with PDB structurers in chimera. this 
> would really be helpfull in visualing the conformatinal changes. I 
> know chimera has the option for movie with trajectory files. but i 
> wish to kow the option with PDB files only.

Hi Amutha,
	I assume you're talking about the situation where you have one PDB 
file for each "frame" of a trajectory (or a multi-MODEL PDB file of the 
trajectory), rather than a starting and ending PDB file that you want 
to "morph" between.  Either way, unfortunately, we don't currently 
support what you want.  However, now that you have pointed out the 
usefulness for plain-PDB support in Movie, I can probably add it in the 
not-too-distant future.  But given my other priorities (including 
support for attribute coloring that you mentioned earlier!) the 
"not-too-distant future" might still be a couple of months.  I'll send 
mail when there is at least a preliminary version available.


                         Eric Pettersen
                         UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
                         pett at cgl.ucsf.edu
                         http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu