> Does anyone know of a way to embed coordinates within a pymol script?

Have you seen cmd.read_pdbstr() and its companion cmd.get_pdbstr()?

-michael

> I'd like to be able to programmatically generate a self-contained pymol
> script which loads the embedded coords, defines selections, and
> highlights selections with colors/rendering. The immediate use for this
> is to write a CGI which returns a pymol script over http. Thus, the
> coordinates cannot be expected to exist on the client side (and, in my
> case, are model coordinates, not a PDB entry).
>
> RasMol provides the 'load pdb inline' command which loads a PDB file
> which appears at the end of the script. I'd like something similar for
> PyMOL, preferably generalized to multiple structures. An extension to
> load in which the filename could be '<<TAG' a la sh or perl (gasps heard
> on the list) would do the trick.
>
> Thanks,
> Reece
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