[chimerax-users] Saving multiple MRC with derivative names

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Nebojsa,
We're glad you like ChimeraX!

It has the following handy mechanism for using command files (.cxc) to process multiple input files without having write python.

You can open a command file (.cxc file) using the "open" command with the "forEachFile" option: 
<https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/open.html#forEachFile>

As explained in the link above, you can use "$file" in the commands in the file to name them differently according to the names of the different input files.

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 Apr 18, 2022, at 1:47 PM, Nebojsa Bogdanovic via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I was looking into the possibility of saving 5 mrc maps after batch z-flipping them.  The commands would looks something like this:
> 
> 1. cd /folder/with/maps
> 2. open *.mrc
> 3. volume flip #1-5
> 4. save [name]-zflip.mrc models #6-10
> 
> Ideally, the script would save each new (flipped) map as a new .mrc with the suffix "-zflip" or whichever suffix user specifies in the script line 4. Is there such an option if it's implemented? 
> 
> Thank you for the awesome ChimeraX
> 
> Best regards,
> Nebojša Bogdanović, Ph.D
> Department of Physiology and Biophysics,
> School of Medicine,
> Case Western Reserve University