Maestro Glossary

ASL

Stands for Atom Specification Language. This is a language that allows you to specify a set of atoms in terms of classifications and properties.

installation resources directory

The location in the Schrödinger software installation where resource files for general use are kept. This location is

Linux, Mac:	$SCHRODINGER/mmshare-vversion/data
Windows:	%SCHRODINGER%\mmshare-vversion\data

Maestro resources directory

The location in the Schrödinger software installation where Maestro loooks to find various resources to set as the defaults, such as menus, preferences, color schemes and ramps, mouse mappings, fonts, and so on. This location is as follows:

Linux, Mac:	$SCHRODINGER/maestro-vversion/data/res
Windows:	%SCHRODINGER%\maestro-vversion\data\res

where SCHRODINGER is the environment variable that defines the location of the installation.

Maestro user resources directory

The location where Maestro looks to find various resources that you have customized for the current release, such as menus, preferences, color schemes and ramps, mouse mappings, fonts, and so on. This location is as follows:

Linux, Mac:	$HOME/.schrodinger/maestro147
Windows:	%APPDATA%\Schrodinger\maestro147

profiles directory

The location where Maestro looks to find various resources that have been customized for a particular profile (Maestro, BioLuminate, MaterialsScience, Elements). The resources are kept in a subdirectory for the profile. The profiles directory is in your Maestro user resources directory, and is as follows:

Linux, Mac:	$HOME/.schrodinger/maestro147/profiles
Windows:	%APPDATA%\Schrodinger\maestro147\profiles

shortcut menu

Menu that appears when you right-click and hold in a panel. Also known as a context menu or popup menu.

User resources directory

The location where programs store data that is generated or customized for your use:

Linux, Mac:	$HOME/.schrodinger
Windows:	%APPDATA%\Schrodinger

working directory

The location that Maestro uses by default for reading and writing files. It can be changed from within Maestro—see Changing the Working Directory. The default location is:

Linux:	the directory from which you started Maestro
Windows:	%APPDATA%\Documents\Schrodinger
Mac:	$HOME/Documents/Schrodinger

Job files are usually written to a subdirectory of this directory, named with the job name.

On Linux and Mac, HOME is the environment variable for your home directory (often /home/username on Linux, /Users/username on Mac).

On Windows, APPDATA is the location of your application data, C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming.