[plug] Linux webbrower plugin for PDB files?

[Bernd Felsche]

caston at arach.net.au writes:

>Unfortunately there is no chime plugin for Linux and I don't feel
>like splashing out for crossover.

>One of the websites I am using to learn organic chem has all of its
>molecules in pdb format.

It is Protein Database... guessing from the context.

AFAICT, that's basically plain text. Unless the TLA has been
overloaded far, far too much.

Check out http://molvis.sdsc.edu/visres/molvisfw/titles.jsp
Chimera looks promising... Python-based so you could control a
single main session with externals that are "plugins" in a browser.
I'll stop waving my hands now lest I be asked to do it. :-)

>I can save them locally and view them using a few different apps
>with viewmol being my preferred or have have konq associate the
>format with viewmol.

>Is there anyway I can view these straight in the webbrowser? At the

You'd need at least some sort of custom plugin or the "association".

>moment konq will open the files in viewmol but this sucks hard when
>I got to a page with about 10 organic molecules.

What sort of rating do you give it in terms of nPa absolute
pressure? :-)
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