On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 11:37:22AM +0100, Jonathan Barber wrote: > On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 10:13:42AM +0000, Einat Sitbon wrote: > > > > Hello PyMolers, > > > > I'm wondering if there is a possibility to embed a pymol script in a web > > site. > > What I have in mind is something equivalent to the chime plug-in, using > > pymol. > > Any suggestions? > > One way I've tried to achieve this is to have a CGI on the webserver > that sends a Pymol script to the client. > > If the client's browser has Pymol set up to recognise Pymol scripts, > then it'll execute the script. This requires the CGI to set the MIME > type type and to set the filename of the script to have the correct > suffix (to make Explorer on Windows work properly). > > The downloaded script is then executed by Pymol, which can uses Python's > socket abilities to download PDB files and run Pymol commands on them. > > Et volia! A little convoluted, and by no means as elegent as having a > browser plugin, but it does allow you to use Pymol for visulation over > the web. > > I've got the code for this kicking around somewhere, if anyone is > interested then contact me and I'll look for it and stick it on the web.
A few people have expressed interest in the code, so I've put it up at the following URL: http://www.compbio.dundee.ac.uk/~jon/pymol.cgi -- Jon
