[chimerax-users] ChimeraX equivalent to "Chimera web data"?

[Ben Webb]

On 3/24/20 11:43 AM, Tom Goddard wrote:
>    You could put links to ChimeraX command files (*.cxc) or ChimeraX 
> session files (*.cxs) on your web servers.  ChimeraX commands can open 
> URLs ("open https://...") so a command file could fetch data created by 
> the server.

For .cxc files I got stuck at the first hurdle - am I doing something dumb?

open 
https://modbase.compbio.ucsf.edu/modbase-cgi/showfile.cgi?seq_id=16f39f89e31970dbec2f39c36959c116MVEGDIVS&model_id=484bca9c58210cc27b6172fa60294c2c&flag=C&run=update_80870

loads a PDB file from ModBase but displays it in the browser, not in the 
model window.

The help says "The file type can be indicated by suffix, MIME type, or 
the format option". Suffix here is presumably ".cgi" which doesn't help 
ChimeraX, and ModBase probably isn't setting a sane MIME type either. So 
I tried the 'format' keyword:

open 
https://modbase.compbio.ucsf.edu/modbase-cgi/showfile.cgi?seq_id=16f39f89e31970dbec2f39c36959c116MVEGDIVS&model_id=484bca9c58210cc27b6172fa60294c2c&flag=C&run=update_80870 
format pdb

This says 'Only "None" format can be fetched from https database'. (This 
is with the 2020-03-08 build. I'll try with the latest if you think this 
has been fixed in the interim.)

For session files I assume you're thinking we would run a copy of 
ChimeraX on our system and have it generate the session files? I have a 
passing familiarity with ChimeraX session files, but it seems like it 
would be a lot of work to generate one containing a simple atomic 
structure from scratch using non-ChimeraX software.

	Ben
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