[Chimera-users] Utilizing Chimera in Web-Based Workflows

[Zach Pearson]

Hi Rafi, 

We are working hard to fully deprecate Chimera, and haven’t made its source code accessible for use or extension outside of the desktop application. I would caution against looking for it; the compilation process is complex and depends on resources that may not even be available anymore. Chimera was also written in Python 2.7, a language the computing community is working hard to put to rest — Colab doesn’t support it anymore! 

We do have plans to release a substantial part of ChimeraX on PyPi this year as a public beta, and I’ll make a note to send you an email when that release happens. Then you should be able to use it in Colab like any other PyPi package. Let me know if I can answer any other questions you may have.

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Zach Pearson
Programmer, ChimeraX Team
UCSF RBVI
zjp at cgl.ucsf.edu



> On Apr 20, 2023, at 13:44, Rafi Brent via Chimera-users <chimera-users at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> 
> To whom it may concern,
>     I'm wondering if there's any way to access Chimera without having the GUI downloaded on a local computer. Specifically, I'd like to run chimera as part of a public Google Colab (.ipynb) notebook, which would allow users to access the chimera functionality through either installing a PyPi package or calls to a web-accessible API. Do you know of any tool like this, or have any other ideas for how Chimera could be used in Colab notebook? Thanks so much for any advice you may have.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Rafi Brent
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