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

Tue Mar 24 14:51:42 PDT 2020

On 3/24/20 2:22 PM, Eric Pettersen wrote:
> I mentioned awhile back that I was working on a replacement for the 
> Open/Save/DataFormat bundle_info tags.  In the replacement scheme, this 
> will be possible by specifying the ‘dataFormat’ keyword, /e.g./ open 
> long-ass-url data pdb.

OK, in that case it's probably easiest for me to wait until that's 
rolled out.

> I should note 
> that the retrieved file is actually in HTML with the PDB data embedded 
> between <PRE> </PRE> tags, so the PDB reader does a lot of complaining 
> about “Bad PDB record <HTML>” and so forth, but the structure does open.

Oh yes, that's right (although I don't recall Chimera ever complaining 
about it). I should be able to fix that at the server side.

>   Also, the structure has a blank chain ID, which is ugly to use in 
> commands.

Right, thanks for the reminder! That's probably true for 99% of ModBase 
structures, but I'll tweak our pipeline for new structures at least.

	Ben
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