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

[Rodrigo Galindo-Murillo]

Perfect! Thank you very much!

Best,
Rodrigo

On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 1:45 PM Elaine Meng <meng at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
>
> 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
> -----
> 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.
>