[PyMOL] scripts with inline PDB

[Reece H. <re...@in...>]

Amigos-

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