[Chimera-users] Scripting with Chimera

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Svetlana,
Every Chimera command can be pythonized with runCommand, as detailed  
in this previous post by Eric:

<http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/pipermail/chimera-users/2009-March/003729.html>

We have reproduced the Ubuntu problem and are looking into it.

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
                      http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/meng/index.html

On Aug 13, 2009, at 1:40 PM, Lockwood, Svetlana wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Here's my problem: I need to calculate hydrogen bonds for several  
> thousand PDB files. Chimera has nice hbonds command line command -  
> sweet! Since Chimera was vanishing from Ubuntu, I had to switch to  
> other available tools, i.e. Windows. After I got my python up and  
> running and communicating with Chimera modules. Here's my very  
> simple pseudo-idea:
>
> foreach file in the list:
>     open PDB file
>     construct output filename from input filename
>     calculate & and write out hydrogen bonds using hbonds command
>     close file
> end foreach
>
> Short and sweet. Except that one cannot use a command line command  
> within python code. Command files don't work either because they do  
> not understand python commands. Someone must have run into the same  
> problem before me :-) Is there a way around this problem?
>
> Thank you,
> Svetlana