= Attendees =

Tom Goddard, Zach, Eric, Greg, Elaine, Scooter, Tom Ferrin

March 26, 2026

= Agenda =

* Zach - work in progress
* Endowed viz position search
* Setup of server GPU nodes

= Discussion Notes =

* !PySide in next ChimeraX release?
 - Eric mentions many ChimeraX crashes related to PySide have been reported and we may use PyQt for the next release.
 - We don't need to renew the !PyQt license to use the !PyQt 6.10 in the next ChimeraX (June 2026) because that !PyQt version was released during our current !PyQt license period.
 - Scooter suggests checking !PySide bug tracking to see if any of our crashes have been reported.
 - TomG suggest we can try !PySide 6.10.3 when it comes out next week.  Currently we are at 6.10.1.
 - We are not able to reproduce any of the PySide crashes.

* PDBe wants public !DockerHub ChimeraX
 - PDBe wants to use ChimeraX addh to add hydrogens in a structure processing workflow using !NextFlow.
 - They say !NextFlow needs to get a Docker image of ChimeraX from !DockerHub.
 - We told them that circumvents our ChimeraX license.
 - They said they will try other software to add hydrogens.
 - Eric suggests we could distribute a !DockerHub ChimeraX without Qt libraries.
 - Greg will try to make a ChimeraX docker image.

* ChimeraX metal graphics pull request
 - Tom Ferrin asked about large ChimeraX pull request to replace ChimeraX graphics from Mitch Murphy.
 - Discussed that that is no maintainable.
 - Zach closed the pull request explaining such a change would not be maintainable.

* Zach work in progress
 - Described flying edges surface calculation algorithm.
 - Suggested collecting detailed tool and command usage statistics.
 - Improved glycan depiction SNFG.
 - Improvements to lighting gui.
 - Animation tool fixes.
 - MCP updates from Alexis Rohou.
 - Removing medical imaging to separate bundle in progress.

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