<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Francesco,<div>An MD Movie "metafile" can be opened with File... Open or the command "open." It is a simple text file that has the same things you would normally enter into the MD Movie input dialog, for example:</div><div><br></div><div><div>amber 500 1000</div><div>prmtop</div><div>mdcrd</div><div><br></div><div>... if my AMBER input files are named prmtop and mdcrd, and I want to view only frames 500-1000. The reasoning is that most trajectory formats require more than one file and/or some other parameters to be entered. Also, in the case of a single PDB file (with MODEL/ENDMDL around each frame), the behavior is different if you open it as a trajectory (allows play-through) than if you just opened it as a regular PDB file (shows all frames together at the same time).</div><div><br></div><div><<a href="http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/filetypes.html#molstruct">http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/filetypes.html#molstruct</a>></div><div><<a href="http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/movie/movie.html#metafile">http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/movie/movie.html#metafile</a>></div><div><br></div><div>Maybe this metafile approach will be helpful.</div><div>Elaine</div><div>
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<div><div>On Sep 28, 2010, at 5:47 AM, Francesco Oteri wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">PS: Is it possible to add the possibility to open topology directly from the menu File->Open?</span></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>