May 2023 - ChimeraX-announce - RBVI Mailing Lists

REMINDER: ChimeraX website downtime
by Elaine Meng 15 May '23

15 May '23

REMINDER: Due to a scheduled power outage at UCSF followed by server upgrades, the ChimeraX website and web services will be unavailable -- the estimated downtime is from Tuesday May 16 8pm PDT through Wednesday May 17 8pm PDT. Please pardon any inconvenience, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Chimera(X) team Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco

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ChimeraX 1.6.1 release
by Eric Pettersen 10 May '23

10 May '23

UCSF ChimeraX version 1.6.1 has been released! ChimeraX includes user documentation and is free for noncommercial use. Download for Windows, Linux, and MacOS from: https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/download.html <https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/download.html> Updates since version 1.5 (Nov 2022) include: - ESMFold protein structure prediction and residue-residue error plot - Add Charge GUI - Dock Prep GUI to repair side chains, add hydrogens, etc. - Render by Attribute GUI for coloring by atomic or residue values - swapna command to mutate nucleic acid residues - invert chiral center - read SwissDock docking results - Blast Protein query sequence can be pasted in or specified by UniProt ID - browse/fetch medical images from The Cancer Imaging Archive - read medical images in NIfTI (.nii) and NRRD (.nnrd) formats For details, please see the ChimeraX change log: https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/trac/ChimeraX/wiki/ChangeLog <https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/trac/ChimeraX/wiki/ChangeLog> For those of you who downloaded plain 1.6 while it was briefly available, please upgrade to 1.6.1. It has several bug fixes that 1.6 should have had but didn't. --Eric Eric Pettersen UCSF Computer Graphics Lab

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Web site downtime
by Eric Pettersen 04 May '23

04 May '23

Hi all, Due to a scheduled power outage at UCSF followed by server upgrades, the ChimeraX website and web services will be unavailable from Tuesday May 16 through most of Wednesday May 17. Please pardon any inconvenience, --Eric Eric Pettersen UCSF Computer Graphics Lab

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