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Executing RasMol Scripts in PyMOL
Author(s) -
Mottarella Scott,
Wischmeyer Corey,
Hanson Brett,
Westin Charles,
Bernstein Herbert,
Craig Paul A.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fasebj.22.1_supplement.659.1
Subject(s) - scripting language , computer science , plug in , visualization , programming language , python (programming language) , interface (matter) , object oriented programming , world wide web , graphical user interface , human–computer interaction , software engineering , artificial intelligence , operating system , bubble , maximum bubble pressure method
There are many freely available molecular visualization programs used by scientists to view macromolecules. Each application has advantages. However, each of these applications also has its own scripting language. For scientists to utilize multiple molecular visualization applications, they must learn each of those scripting languages. To unite these applications, it is necessary to create tools to interconvert these scripts according to the conventions of each program. We have created a plugin that can read scripts from RasMol and execute the equivalent commands in PyMOL. Challenges have included different sets of commands and object‐oriented vs. simple text formats. It is the goal of the Structural Biology Extensible Visualization Scripting Language project to create an interface that will enable use of scripts from one molecular visualization application in a variety of other applications. This will enable users to run multiple programs while only needing to develop expertise in the scripting language for one of those programs. The project is funded in part by NIGMS grant #1R15GM078077.