<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="">Hi Ben,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> You could put links to ChimeraX command files (*.cxc) or ChimeraX session files (*.cxs) on your web servers. ChimeraX commands can open URLs ("open https://...") so a command file could fetch data created by the server. The ChimeraX session files are data (in msgpack format). Unlike Chimera 1 files which were executable Python code, the ChimeraX files are much safer (can't execute arbitrary Python).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> I am not sure if ChimeraX command and session files cover the use cases that Chimera web data files did. Tell me if they don't.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> Another nice ChimeraX feature is that it has a built-in web browser and if you open a web page in the ChimeraX browser then special links in the page (<a href="cxcmd: open 6lu7">Open protease</a>) can execute code directly in ChimeraX. This is a nice way to do tutorials in ChimeraX where you can click on links to run commands -- there are examples on the ChimeraX tutorials page that do this (<a href="https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimerax/tutorials.html" class="">https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimerax/tutorials.html</a>). Potentially a user could run one of your web services from within the ChimeraX browser and then just click links on your web page to show results. The drawback is that a user is much more likely to want to use the web browser they are used to (Safari, Firefox, Chrome, ...) since those browsers are more polished and robust. For instance I think the ChimeraX browser can't handle logging in to password protected web sites that use a popup window.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Tom</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 24, 2020, at 10:51 AM, Ben Webb <<a href="mailto:ben@salilab.org" class="">ben@salilab.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">We have a number of web services and tools that generate web data (*.chimerax) files for legacy Chimera. (Typically they load in a PDB file and an alignment and apply some sort of custom view.) What would the equivalent be for ChimeraX?<br class=""><br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Ben<br class="">-- <br class=""><a href="mailto:ben@salilab.org" class="">ben@salilab.org</a> <a href="https://salilab.org/~ben/" class="">https://salilab.org/~ben/</a><br class="">"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data."<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">ChimeraX-users mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:ChimeraX-users@cgl.ucsf.edu" class="">ChimeraX-users@cgl.ucsf.edu</a><br class="">Manage subscription:<br class="">http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimerax-users<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>