ChimeraX Developer Wiki

ChimeraX is a desktop application for molecular visualization and analysis, with an emphasis on molecular assemblies.

​ChimeraX Home Page

Change log

​Source code at GitHub

​ChimeraX Recipes - example command and Python scripts

Documentation

• ​User guide
• ​Quick start
• ​Programming manual

Usage

• Citations graph , ​2017 paper (828 to January 2021), ​2021 paper
• ​Registered users (password protected, 1455 unique email addresses to Jan 2021)
• Downloads graph (53000 to January 2021, details)

Builds

​Daily builds

• How to restart the daily builds
• ​Linux daily build log
• ​Windows daily build log
• ​Mac daily build log

​Release bundles on toolshed

Getting ChimeraX source code

Windows Development Requirements

Linux Development Setup

Building Linux Bundles

Nightly Linux build using Docker (historical)

How to add a Trac user (such as a new bundle developer)

Miscellaneous

Feature and Implementation discussions

Benchmark results

Hardware

• ​vizvault VR instructions
• vizvault stereo instructions
• ​Computer Hardware for Chimera / ChimeraX