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Lambert AR, Sussman D et.al. Structures of the Rare-Cutting Restriction Endonuclease NotI Reveal a Unique Metal Binding Fold Involved in DNA Binding. Structure. 2008 Apr 8;16(4):558-69.
Scott KA, Bond PJ et.al. Coarse-Grained MD Simulations of Membrane Protein-Bilayer Self-Assembly. Structure. 2008 Apr 8;16(4):621-630.
McErlean P, Shackelton LA et.al. Distinguishing molecular features and clinical characteristics of a putative new rhinovirus species, human rhinovirus C (HRV C). PLoS ONE. 2008 Apr 2;3(4):e1847.
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May 1, 2008
A new Chimera snapshot is available. It will be the last release with Tk 8.4. Daily builds now include Tk 8.5, which means that GUIs on Linux and Mac OS X use antialiased fonts.
April 2008
Chimera is featured in the Education Corner of the RCSB PDB Newsletter, Spring 2008 edition.
February 13, 2008
A new Chimera snapshot is available. It will be the last release with Python 2.4, as development with 2.5 has begun. The SGI IRIX and HP Tru64 platforms are now deprecated; their support depends on the continued availability of such machines to the development team.
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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). (More about Chimera...)
Feature Highlight
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.
(More features...)Gallery Sample
Potassium channel (Protein Data Bank entry 1bl8) on a dark slate blue background with potassium ions shown in firebrick. The channel is comprised of four chains. Each chain has been rainbow-colored from blue at the N-terminus to red at the C-terminus, but only the surface of the channel is shown. The surface has been sliced with a per-model clipping plane. The surface cap color is plum except with opacity set to 0.8. The shininess and brightness have been set to 128 and 8, respectively, and the lights on the scene have been moved from their default positions. The subdivision quality (related to the smoothness of the spherical ions) is 5.0, and the molecular surface was computed with probe radius and vertex density set to 1.0 and 6.0, respectively. (More samples...)