Hi Kushagra, ChimeraX has a Python shell, menu Tools / General / Shell. That brings up a separate panel where you can type Python code. To get the list of open models mlist = session.models.list() To make a molecular surface for each chain from chimerax.surface.surfacecmds import surface m = mlist[0] surfs = surface(session, m.atoms) To hide the surface of the first chain surfs[0].display = False To list the methods of a ChimeraX class from chimerax.atomic import Structure dir(Structure) But you might find it easier to read the ChimeraX Python API documentation, for instance for atomic structures https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/devel/bundles/atomic/src/atomic.html <https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/devel/bundles/atomic/src/atomic.html> Here are low level surface related functions https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/devel/bundles/surface/src/surface.htm... <https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/devel/bundles/surface/src/surface.htm...> For the Python functions used by the typed ChimeraX commands https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/devel/core/commands/user_commands.htm... <https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/devel/core/commands/user_commands.htm...> for instance, the "surface" command https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/devel/core/commands/user_commands.htm... <https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/devel/core/commands/user_commands.htm...> If the API documentation does not give all the details you want, then look at the Python code which is included in ChimeraX. For instance, on Mac it is in ChimeraX.app/Contents/lib/python3.9/site-packages/chimerax for instance the surface command Python code is here ChimeraX.app/Contents/lib/python3.9/site-packages/chimerax/surface/surfacecmds.py Or if you prefer look at that same code in the ChimeraX Github repository https://github.com/RBVI/ChimeraX/blob/develop/src/bundles/surface/src/surfac... <https://github.com/RBVI/ChimeraX/blob/develop/src/bundles/surface/src/surfac...> If all else fails, ask us on this ChimeraX mailing list your specific programming questions. We'd love to have you develop plugins. Tom

On Mar 23, 2022, at 12:09 AM, KUSHAGRA RUSTAGI via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:

Greetings,

I am Kushagra Rustagi an undergraduate student at IIT Roorkee who is working on developing a ChimeraX plugin. I had some doubts:

1. Can we open a session in ipython? Basically while developing codes for chimerax is there a way to open chimera command line in ipython?

2. For example if we want to run an inbuilt function of any particular class in ChimeraX and we want to find all methods associated with that class. How do we go about doing it?

3. How to go about exploring surface generation functions in ChimeraX?

Regards, Kushagra Rustagi

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