The UCSF Resource for Biocomputing, Visualization, and Informatics
is pleased to announce the newest release of UCSF Chimera, an
interactive molecular modeling system. It is free to academic and
non-profit users and is available for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, IRIX,
and Tru64 Unix. It can be downloaded from http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera
Chimera has the capabilities common to many molecular graphics programs,
as well as a number of more unique features, including:
- Display of multiple sequence alignments and associated
structures, with information flow in both directions
- Atom-type identification within arbitrary molecules
- Hydrogen-bond identification using crystallographically-derived
distance and angle criteria
- Display of 3-dimensional data sets as contour surfaces or
transparent solids, with interactive threshold adjustment
- Playback of molecular dynamics trajectories (AMBER format;
others forthcoming)
- Interface to facilitate screening of candidate ligands from
DOCK, including filtering by number/position of hydrogen bonds
- Extensibility as a design principle, allowing users to create
custom modules without changing Chimera code
Further description of Chimera's features can be found at
http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera
