Ok. Thank you Elaine.
Shubham

From: Elaine Meng <meng@cgl.ucsf.edu>
Sent: June 9, 2023 12:13 PM
To: Shubham Devesh Ramgoolam <sdramgoolam@uwaterloo.ca>
Cc: chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu <chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu>
Subject: Re: [Chimera-users] Loading Trajectory Files from Command Line
 
Hi Shubham,
Yes, but it is different in Chimera.  In Chimera you have to first create a "metafile" which is a small text file that contains the same stuff that you would otherwise be entering into the Chimera MD Movie dialog, with input filenames and other parameters.  For full explanation and examples see:

<https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/movie/movie.html#metafile>

After you create this simple metafile in a text editor, then you can open it from the command line.  E.g. if metafile is /Users/meng/Desktop/mymetafile1, then command

open md:/Users/meng/Desktop/mymetafile1

I hope this helps,
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.                      
UCSF Chimera(X) team
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco


> On Jun 8, 2023, at 6:21 PM, Shubham Devesh Ramgoolam via Chimera-users <chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> Is it possible to load trajectory files directly from the command line in Chimera?
> In ChimeraX, it would be done as follows: open myfile.psf coords myfile.dcd
> I was wondering if there was a chimera version for this command.
> Regards,
> Shubham