On Jul 8, 2005, at 3:27 PM, syma wrote:
HI,
I was just wondering if it is possible to import gopenmol plt files in chimera either directly or by going through a (freely available) conversion code?
Thanks in advance for your help,
-Syma
Hi Syma, I nosed around the net a little and didn't find anything obvious for converting .plt files to a format that Chimera reads. However, it is possible to add new file types to Chimera's Volume Viewer tool as documented here: http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ ContributedSoftware/volumeviewer/volumeviewer.html#newformats . You would need to know the format of a .plt file, and know how to program in Python. The format for .plt files is documented in Appendix 2 of gOpenMol's old user manual. The format is reasonably simple. That said, it is probably easier for us to write the code to support the format than for you to write it, since we are already familiar with how to do it. Unfortunately the true expert for that, Tom Goddard (who wrote Volume Viewer), is on vacation until July 24th. Do you need to be able to do this before then? I have added one format myself and could give it a go if you needed something before then. In either case, we would need an example .plt file and an image of what that example data should look like when correctly rendered. Eric Pettersen UCSF Computer Graphics Lab pett@cgl.ucsf.edu http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu