<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">ChimeraX is much better than Chimera at giving you results from commands in Python. For instance, in ChimeraX<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">open 1a0m</div><div class="">open 1a0m</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Then using ChimeraX Python shell (menu Tools / General / Shell):</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">from chimerax.core.commands import run</div><div class="">results = run(session, 'match #1/A to #2/B')</div><div class="">t = results[0]['transformation matrix']</div><div class="">t.matrix</div><div class=""><div class="">-> array([[ -0.31727375, -0.30378517, -0.8983607 , 27.04037902],</div><div class=""> [ -0.31084291, 0.92828353, -0.20412344, 2.9200737 ],</div><div class=""> [ 0.89594311, 0.21448605, -0.38894946, -10.81923792]])</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> Tom</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 6, 2021, at 9:18 AM, Eric Pettersen via Chimera-users <<a href="mailto:chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu" class="">chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Maik,<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I don't know of a non-cumbersome way. If you are adept at Python programming, the function that the match command calls is Midas.match(), defined in that module's __init__.py file, and you could lift the code that does the match and computes the matrix from there. The Midas module is found in <your Chimera installation>/share/Midas on Windows/Linux and in Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/share/Midas on Mac.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">--Eric</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Eric Pettersen</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>UCSF Computer Graphics Lab</div><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 5, 2021, at 6:35 AM, Engeholm, Maik via Chimera-users <<a href="mailto:chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu" class="">chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""></p><div class="">Hi there,<br class=""><br class="">I'm trying to superimpose two models from inside a python script and get back the transformation matrix. I know I can do something like<br class=""><br class="">chimera.runCommand("match #1 #0 showMatrix true")<br class=""><br class="">but then the matrix is written to the ReplyLog. (Of course I could save the ReplyLog and then read it in from my script to access the matrix, but that seems quite cumbersome.) 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