Dear programmers/developers of Chimera! I am writing because many of our users display their 3D results obtained with our IMAGIC-5 software with your Chimera program. We would be interested to create a more direct coupling to Chimera which I believe would be to everyone's advantage. We as the Image Science company maintain and distribute (free of charge) a universal data conversion program called EM2EM which most people in the 3DEM ("3D electron microscopy") community use to convert their results into various formats such as MRC/CCP4 that is compatible with Chimera directly. The data format of our IMAGIC-5 software is comparable to MRC/CCP4 but is a bit richer because it also supports sequences of 3D volumes in a file. Is it possible to achieve a closer integration with your Chimera program? And if yes, how can we proceed? Thank you and kind regards Michael Schatz Image Science www.ImageScience.de www.ImageScience.de/imagic www.ImageScience.de/formats
Hi Michael, I develop the Chimera volume data display and file readers. If you would like Chimera to read IMAGIC-5 format I can probably add that. Your documentation looks good. Is it generally the case that the header file (suffix ".hed") and image file (suffix ".img") are in the same directory? I ask because opening files in Chimera is done by giving a single file path (could be your header file or raw image data file), and it will have to find the related file. To write the file reader I would need one or a few example files to test with. I am working on many projects. This file reader might take 1 to 2 days which could be done some time in the next couple months. I think this will be useful to the EM community and I will be happy to discuss any other file format issues related to EM2EM and Chimera. Tom
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