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
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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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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Thank you for your kind words as well! I write a good chunk of the user documentation (not all), so I really appreciate hearing that it helps you and your students work effectively with the software. Sincerely, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Chimera(X) team Resource for Biocomputing, Visualization, and Informatics Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco
On Sep 25, 2025, at 12:45 AM, Guillaume Gaullier via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
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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Elaine Meng -
Eric Pettersen -
Esmaeeli,Reza -
Guillaume Gaullier