UCSF ChimeraX version 1.8 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
Updates since version 1.7 (Dec 2023) include:
- show worm depictions of attribute values (B-factor, conservation, etc.)
using Render by Attribute tool or "cartoon byattribute" command
- show attribute values with atomic radii using Render by Attribute or
"size byattribute"
- Select by Attribute graphical interface
- Join Models generalized to any covalent bond (not just peptide)
- show multiple alternate locations simultaneously with "altlocs show"
- "pbond" command to create arbitrary pseudobonds
- "measure contactarea" to report the area of one surface within a cutoff
distance of another
- Segmentations tool for interactive manual segmentation in 2D slice views,
3D (desktop), or 3D (VR) can be applied to any volume data, not just
medical images; several fixes and ergonomic improvements including icons
to assign/deassign mouse and VR hand-controller modes with a single click
- set up and analyze batch AlphaFold predictions to search for
protein-protein interactions (commands for advanced users who can
run ColabFold directly on Linux)
support for:
- reading predicted aligned error (PAE) data from AlphaFold 3
- reading docking results from MOE
- fetching atomic structures and maps from PDB-REDO
- fetching/display of PDB NMR-STAR restraints
For details, please see the ChimeraX change log:
https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/trac/ChimeraX/wiki/ChangeLog
On behalf of the team,
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.
UCSF Chimera(X) team
Resource for Biocomputing, Visualization, and Informatics
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco
