[Chimera-users] Load AMBER trajectory from command line?

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Rodrigo!
Happily, I can say yes there is a way.  You can put the information that would have been entered in the initial MD Movie dialog into a small text file called "metafile" and then open the metafile with a command, e.g. something like: 

open md:/Users/meng/Desktop/mymetafile

There is some description of this below the formats table in the "MD Movie" input section:
<http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/movie/framemovie.html>
... specifically
<http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/movie/movie.html#metafile>

See also "MD Movie metafile" in the general input formats table:
<http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/filetypes.html#molstruct>

I hope this helps,
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.                       
UCSF Chimera(X) team
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco

> On May 20, 2020, at 12:34 PM, Rodrigo Galindo-Murillo <rodrigogalindo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> I wonder if there is a way to load an AMBER topology/trajectory
> directly from the command line without having to go to
> tools->Md/ensemble-> MD movie, etc...
> 
> For example, in VMD you can use:
> vmd -parm7 topology.parm7 -netcdf trajectory.nc
> 
> I am NOT implying VMD is better than Chimera  :)
> It will be just faster to be able to quickly load trajectories from
> the command line to save some time.
> 
> Thanks!
> Rodrigo.