[chimera-dev] Want to Convert PDB to VMRL?

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Calem,
Chimera has an "export" command, see:
<http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/export.html>

Note the OBJ export only includes surfaces.

The Chimera programmer's guide has some explanation of how to loop over multiple files:
<http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ProgrammersGuide/basicPrimer.html>

First you would try entering commands directly into the Command Line to figure out what commands you want to use on each structure.  Then you would imbed those commands in a looping script.
Best,
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.                       
UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco

On Aug 9, 2012, at 7:19 PM, Calem Bendell wrote:

> I’d like to convert PDB to VMRL and OBJ (for some reason hydrophobicity exports well as obj and ribbon as wrl, other than those file formats, I usually get file errors from Blender?) using Chimera via command-line call (doing them one by one will be a pain for several thousand pdb files!).
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> How would I do this?  Would I need to modify the Chimera source?  (if necessary, I can do this, but it seems like it’d be pretty time consuming)
>  
> Thank you guys!!!
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