Simplifying and enhancing the use of PyMOL with horizontal scripts.

ABSTRACT: Scripts are used in PyMOL to exert precise control over the appearance of the output and to ease remaking similar images at a later time. We developed horizontal scripts to ease script development. A horizontal script makes a complete scene in PyMOL like a traditional vertical script. The commands in a horizontal script are separated by semicolons. These scripts are edited interactively on the command line with no need for an external text editor. This simpler workflow accelerates script development. In using PyMOL, the illustration of a molecular scene requires an 18-element matrix of view port settings. The default format spans several lines and is laborious to manually reformat for one line. This default format prevents the fast assembly of horizontal scripts that can reproduce a molecu

SUBMITTER: Mooers BH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5029532 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature