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Structural insights into RNA processing by the human RISC-loading complex. Wang HW, Noland C et.al. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2009 Nov;16(11):1148-53.
Accuracy analysis of multiple structure alignments. Berbalk C, Schwaiger CS, Lackner P. Protein Sci. 2009 Oct;18(10):2027-35.
10-Å cryoEM structure and molecular model of the Myriapod (Scutigera) 6x6mer hemocyanin: understanding a giant oxygen transport protein. Markl J, Moeller A et.al. J Mol Biol. 2009 Sep 18;392(2):362-80.
Structural changes to monomeric CuZn superoxide dismutase caused by the familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-associated mutation A4V. Schmidlin T, Kennedy BK, Daggett V. Biophys J. 2009 Sep 16;97(6):1709-18.
A dimeric structure for archaeal box C/D small ribonucleoproteins. Bleichert F, Gagnon KT et.al. Science. 2009 Sep 11;325(5946):1384-7.
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October 14, 2009
A new Chimera production release candidate (version 1.4) is now available. Many new features have been added since the last production release. Please try the release candidate and report any problems.
August 20, 2009
A new Chimera snapshot release is available. This release provides access to many new features added since the last production release, with a greater level of testing than daily builds.
July 3, 2009
SMILES → 3D conversion and fetching modeled 3D structures by PubChem CID have been updated (in daily builds) to use the new REST services provided by the Chemical Informatics and Cyberinfrastructure Collaboratory (CICC) at Indiana University.
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UCSF Chimera is a highly extensible program for interactive visualization and analysis of molecular structures and related data, including density maps, supramolecular assemblies, sequence alignments, docking results, trajectories, and conformational ensembles. High-quality images and animations can be generated. Chimera includes complete documentation and several tutorials, and can be downloaded free of charge for academic, government, non-profit, and personal use. Chimera is developed by the Resource for Biocomputing, Visualization, and Informatics and funded by the NIH National Center for Research Resources (grant P41-RR01081).
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The Multiscale Models extension allows Chimera to display large complexes such as virus capsids, ribosomes, and chromatin. It displays the quaternary structure of PDB models and allows subunits to be selected and shown in atomic detail. Matrices are read from PDB files that specify the biological unit. Crystallographic packing can also be shown.
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Eukaryotic initiation factor (eIF) complex (from Protein Data Bank entry 1rf8) in which eIF4E, shown with blue ribbons, is completely encircled by eIF4G, shown with yellow ribbons and red molecular surface (image creation details). (More samples...)