[Jmol-users] anim command with multiple files

[Brandon Hespenheide]

Hi,             I’ve been looking through the archive for a way around concatenating files (PDB format) in order to utilize the animation command in a jmol script. We have software that can explore conformational motion in proteins. Generally, 10-100 unique conformations can be produced, it depends on the user input. These files are then made available for download and further analysis by the user. I would like to display a movie of the conformational motion, but I do not want to have to create an additional PDB file that is simply a cat’ed version of all the other output files, as this will essentially double the amount of space each run requires.             Does anyone know if it is possible with scripting to load each of my conformers sequentially, and then display them as an animation? A results similar to the anim command would be desirable. Otherwise, I think we’ll need to hack something with php and rpc in order to dynamically create and destroy a concatenated file for viewing.             Brandon PS. Been using Jmol on our site for about 3 months now. It is very, very, very nice.