Changes between Version 89 and Version 90 of requests

Timestamp:

Feb 10, 2010, 12:56:11 PM (16 years ago)

Author:

goddard

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 Currently they include only those collected by Tom Goddard (focus on
 density maps, molecular assemblies, electron microscopy).
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+<b>Background image/movie creation for databases</b><br>
+Tom Goddard<br>
+February 10, 2010<br>
+ Here is an idea for producing images and movies in nogui mode in Chimera.  My interest in this is because my San Diego visit tomorrow is to an NCRR center (NRAMM) that automates EM data collection and processing and they like to automatically make Chimera images and movies using this background pipeline.  Of course, they can (and maybe do) use the Linux Headless Chimera version for this.  But why not make it easier by not requiring a special Chimera and particular operating system?  Could Mesa be included in the standard Linux Chimera and when the --nogui flag is used it could set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to link to Mesa instead of the system OpenGL to allow background image/movie creation without being logged into the console?  If Mesa builds on Mac and Windows they could also do this too?
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+ Allowing public database sites to generate images and movies as a background console-less process without requiring a special Chimera that is now available on only one operating system might encourage that use.  Although there are relatively few databases who might use that, the impact of having Chimera images on those sites may justify the effort.
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+ Currently the PDB, EMDB (EM Navigator Japan PDB), and NRAMM resource (San Diego) do database image generation with Chimera.  Not sure if Andrej Sali uses it for ModBase -- that could be another customer. 
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