Hi Chris, You could just use a Chimera command script rather than python, but I guess you want to do some other python stuff like looping. If you know the Chimera command, it is relatively easy, e.g. from chimera import runCommand runCommand('open 1zik') runCommand('preset apply int 1') runCommand('roll y 3 60') I don't know python myself, but got the above by showing the Command History, clicking "Record..." and in the next dialog, choosing the option to Record as "Python commands." I hope this helps, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. meng@cgl.ucsf.edu UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/meng/index.html On May 23, 2009, at 10:54 AM, christopher lau wrote:
Hi, Does anyone have any documentation on the chimera API? I want to familiarize myself more with the commands that can be used in the Chimera IDLE and python scripts. I have looked at the Example tutorials (http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ProgrammersGuide/Examples/ ), but aside from the commands used in the tutorial I do not know how to perform other actions on the molecule. One of the commands I would like to run is to rotate the molecule ("roll", in the command line) using IDLE commands.
Thanks for your help,
Chris