Chimera Plugin Question
Hi, I was wondering if it is possible to develop a custom plugin for Chimera that users would be able to download an use? Does Chimera allow this, or must all functionalities in Chimera be designed by the UCSF team? Ideally, this custom plugin would include new buttons to the chimera GUI as well.
Sincerely, Joshua Broyde
Hi Joshua, There are several Chimera plugins developed by others and available on the web. The ones we know about are listed here:
http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/plugins/plugins.html
These are generally available from the developers’ websites, rather than a central repository. After download, you have to use Chimera Preferences, category: Tools to specify the directory location(s) of external plugins for them to appear in the Tools menu.
One of the advantages of our new ChimeraX software is an associated central repository, the “Toolshed”, allowing developers to upload their plugins and users to install them easily. However, ChimeraX is still in early stages without the full panoply of Chimera’s features, so it depends on what you want to do with this plugin. ChimeraX is already available for download, though, and you can see more about it and the Toolshed here:
homepage http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/index.html shortlist of advantages and link to Toolshed http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/advantages.html programmer guide http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/devel/index.html
Best, Elaine ---------- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Chimera(X) team Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco
On Jul 3, 2017, at 6:45 AM, Broyde, Joshua E. jb3401@cumc.columbia.edu wrote:
Hi, I was wondering if it is possible to develop a custom plugin for Chimera that users would be able to download an use? Does Chimera allow this, or must all functionalities in Chimera be designed by the UCSF team? Ideally, this custom plugin would include new buttons to the chimera GUI as well. Sincerely, Joshua Broyde
On Jul 3, 2017, at 10:24 AM, Elaine Meng meng@cgl.ucsf.edu wrote:
One of the advantages of our new ChimeraX software is an associated central repository, the “Toolshed”, allowing developers to upload their plugins and users to install them easily. However, ChimeraX is still in early stages without the full panoply of Chimera’s features, so it depends on what you want to do with this plugin. ChimeraX is already available for download, though, and you can see more about it and the Toolshed here:
To supplement this, if your tool is oriented towards volumetric data, I’d say most of the functionality for that is currently available in ChimeraX. Other domains, such as sequences or atomic analysis, are there but at a more basic level -- but improving every day.
—Eric
Eric Pettersen UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
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