VMD-L Mailing List

From: Dr. Seth Olsen (seth.olsen_at_gmail.com)
Date: Tue Jan 30 2007 - 19:51:12 CST

Hi,

I am very interested in a VMD python module. Please consider me a cavy for
testing.

Cheers,

Seth

On 1/31/07, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>
>
> Mikolai,
> There is indeed interest/development going on towards having VMD
> runnable as a Python module rather than using a "door" in the existing
> Tcl interface to run Python scripts and commands.
>
> We've been working towaards making VMD buildable as a Python module
> off and on for a while, and we're getting close to having this done in
> a way that doesn't disrupt the rest of VMD.
> Justin has been developing various patches to refactor the text
> command interface of VMD so it can be loaded from Python and
> have Python optionally be the main text interface to the program.
> We've been slowly making the changes and testing the new builds to make
> sure things don't break, so this is why it isn't entirely finished yet.
>
> If people are interested in trying this out, we could make these
> patches available for testing by others like yourself, in the period
> before they're fully integrated into the standard VMD builds.
> You'd need to build from source, but we can help you do this if you want
> to try it out.
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 02:39:00PM -0800, Mikolai Fajer wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I am trying to get integrate VMD into some analysis scripts written in
> > Python. Is there any planned development in getting VMD's
> > functionality availabe within Python? I am familiar with the python
> > build problems, as well as Justin's VMD module. It is particulary the
> > latter case that interests me, and is there planned development in
> > this direction? Thanks.
> >
> > --
> >
> > -Mikolai Fajer-
>
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Dr Seth Olsen, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Biomolecular Modeling Group
Centre for Computational Molecular Science
Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (Bldg. 75)
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