Dear Chimera developer,<br><br>I&#39;ve been working recently on a database on non-natural sidechains (<a href="http://www.swisssidechain.ch">http://www.swisssidechain.ch</a>). Among else, we&#39;ve developed a novel approach to accurately predict rotamers and our paper will be submitted within a few days.<br>




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I&#39;d be very interested to develop a Chimera extension to visualize them (so far, we only have a PyMOL plug-in). I have rotamer library files in the same format as the Dunbrack 2002 rotamer library for each of the &gt;200 sidechains included in my database. However, it appears that rotamer files (dependentRotamerData.zip) are encrypted in Chimera and I could not figure out how this encryption is done.<br>



<br>I was wondering if you could advise me something to help me (especially whether there are some hard-coded part that would need to be modified to include new sidechains in Chimera) and if you&#39;d be interested in such an extension.<br>



<br>best<br><br>David<br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>David Gfeller, PhD<br>Molecular Modeling<br>Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics<br>
<a href="http://ludwig-sun1.unil.ch/%7Edgfeller/homepage/" target="_blank">http://ludwig-sun1.unil.ch/~dgfeller/homepage/</a><br>