UCSF ChimeraX Advantages
ChimeraX provides several advantages relative to Chimera,
and the list will continue to grow. A small sample is given below.
See also:
feature highlights,
example images
- High-performance manipulation and rendering of large numbers of atoms
- Fast mmCIF reader and ability to
write mmCIF
- Fast and robust
solvent-excluded surfaces
- Interactive ambient-occlusion
lighting modes
- Curved-cylinder “tube” helices integrated with
cartoon style
- Virtual reality
mode for systems supported by SteamVR (Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Samsung Odyssey),
as shown in
PBS Newshour: Flu Vaccine
and UCSF School of Pharmacy News
- Toolbar
with icons to change display styles, lighting modes,
or mouse-button assignments with a single click
- All-in-one window
in which tool interfaces are panels that can be
shown, hidden, and repositioned
- Tool panels may incorporate interactive 2D plots and diagrams,
and HTML with links and images
- Built-in HTML browser
with simple mechanism to execute ChimeraX
commands by clicking links (handy for demonstrations)
- Toolshed web repository of ChimeraX plugins
for easy installation and updates, supporting community development
- Modeller interface
for the comparative modeling of homo- and hetero-multimeric complexes
(in addition to single-chain modeling)
- Features for working with
DICOM medical imaging data
UCSF Resource for Biocomputing, Visualization, and Informatics /
October 2019