HI Oli, Thanks for the suggestion. I agree these would be great to have in ChimeraX, and we certainly haven’t ruled it out… but (as you know) many things are vying for developer time. I would certainly use those palettes if they were available. We’re aware of Colorbrewer and actually its palettes have been in Chimera’s Palette Editor for quite a while: <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/palette.html> However, they never got interfaced with coloring by value and the only direct use was for gradient-coloring the background… admittedly not the best use of most multicolor schemes. Best, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Chimera(X) team Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco
On Sep 8, 2017, at 8:35 AM, Oliver Clarke <olibclarke@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I see in the help for the “rainbow” command that there is an option for web-fetched palettes – any chance for integrating support for ColorBrewer ( http://colorbrewer2.org/#)?
It has different very well-designed palettes for sequential (e.g. color by residue) divergent (e.g. color by charge or hydrophobicity) and qualitative (e.g. color by chain) data, and they are designed to be colorblind-safe etc.
It’s intended for cartography, but I have manually used their palettes for structural biology with pleasing results – the full set of palettes can be downloaded as JSON or in an excel spreadsheet.
Cheers Oli
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