ChimeraX is indeed wonderful, and a good part of my work would be difficult or impossible without it. Been silently enjoying it for a while, but I agree it deserves more visible praise!


One thing I believe is particularly strong in ChimeraX is its documentation: having it fully available from within the program itself is extremely helpful, and the quality of the documentation itself is impressive. This makes it my first choice when teaching these skills to colleagues and students, because I know if I first teach them how to answer their own questions, they will become autonomous much more easily. And there is actually no second choice, because I have not used any other program for years now and can hardly remember how to do anything with other programs.


So thank you so much to the entire team!


Cheers,

Guillaume

From: Eric Pettersen via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu>
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2025 1:41:32 AM
To: Esmaeeli,Reza
Cc: chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu
Subject: [chimerax-users] Re: Just a Big Thank You
 
Dear Reza,
        Thanks so much for taking the time to pen this wonderful note.  In the challenging times we're living in, any ray of sunshine is much appreciated.  As for the future, we are working hard cutting down the list of missing Chimera features, and Tom Goddard is working on interface improvements for running back-end structure-prediction programs like Boltz and AlphaFold.

--Eric

        Eric Pettersen
        UCSF Computer Graphics Lab


> On Sep 24, 2025, at 10:30 AM, Esmaeeli,Reza via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
>
> Dear ChimeraX Developers,
>
> This is Reza and I’m a computational chemist and protein designer. I’ve been a long time user of Chimera and now ChimeraX. Among many visualization programs that I have tried extensively including PyMOL, VMD, Maestro, ChimeraX has remained my favorite.
>
> I just wanted to take a moment and write this email just to say thank you for your amazing work. Even though it is free for academic users, this email is the least I should do after so many hours that I have enjoyed using it. The interface is great. The diverse set of features and modules are awesome. And the command line and scripting capabilities are so intuitive and easy to use.
>
> Can’t wait to see what comes next.
>
> Best Regards,
> Reza
>
> ChimeraX 1.10.1 on macOS Tahoe
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