And I agree it would be useful. If Chimera packages up all the needed maps and the session file in a zip archive this would be convenient. You can of course do this right now by hand, only it isn’t so convenient. Unfortunately this has never reached a high enough priority relative to other enhancements we are working on, so it has not been implemented. It is more likely to get into Chimera 2 than Chimera 1.

On Sep 11, 2015, at 2:05 AM, Oliver Clarke wrote:

Hi all,

Is there any possibility of altering the chimera session format (or adding a separate option) such that all maps (including those created during the session) are also saved?

This would greatly facilitate sharing data with collaborators, and would also allow one to provide chimera sessions with saved scenes as supplementary data when publishing.

It would also make saving sessions more practical when many different volumes are created during the session - for example, when using a molmap low resolution representation for each domain.

This would not necessarily require creating a new format - just creating a tarball or folder with all the maps and relative paths specified in the python file would work fine I think?

Cheers,
Oli.

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