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Molecular architecture of a eukaryotic translational initiation complex. Fernández IS, Bai XC et al. Science. 2013 Nov 15;342(6160):1240585.
Cross-talk between the ligand- and DNA-binding domains of estrogen receptor. Huang W, Greene GL et al. Proteins. 2013 Nov;81(11):1900-9.
ATP-driven molecular chaperone machines. Clare DK, Saibil HR. Biopolymers. 2013 Nov;99(11):846-59.
Discovery of new enzymes and metabolic pathways by using structure and genome context. Zhao S, Kumar R et al. Nature. 2013 Oct 31;502(7473):698-702.
Visualizing virus assembly intermediates inside marine cyanobacteria. Dai W, Fu C et al. Nature. 2013 Oct 31;502(7473):707-10.
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October 31, 2013
Chimera production release 1.8.1 is now available. Changes since 1.8 are mainly to fix problems with Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). See the release notes for further details and for a list of new features since the 1.7 release.
June 7, 2013
Chimera production release 1.8 is now available. See the release notes for new features since the 1.7 release.
April 18, 2013
A production release candidate (version 1.8) is now available; please try it and report any problems. See the release notes for changes relative to the previous release.
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UCSF Chimera is a highly extensible program for interactive visualization and analysis of molecular structures and related data, including density maps, supramolecular assemblies, sequence alignments, docking results, trajectories, and conformational ensembles. High-quality images and animations can be generated. Chimera includes complete documentation and several tutorials, and can be downloaded free of charge for academic, government, non-profit, and personal use. Chimera is developed by the Resource for Biocomputing, Visualization, and Informatics, funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIGMS P41-GM103311).
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A surface can be colored by density or other volume data. In the image, the surface is clipped and capped, and only the cap is colored by density. Different coloring schemes can be applied.
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Potassium channel (Protein Data Bank entry 1bl8) on a dark slate blue background with potassium ions shown in firebrick. The channel is comprised of four chains. Each chain has been rainbow-colored from blue at the N-terminus to red at the C-terminus, but only the surface of the channel is shown. The surface has been sliced with a per-model clipping plane. The surface cap color is plum except with opacity set to 0.8. The shininess and brightness have been set to 128 and 8, respectively, and the lights on the scene have been moved from their default positions. The subdivision quality (related to the smoothness of the spherical ions) is 5.0, and the molecular surface was computed with probe radius and vertex density set to 1.0 and 6.0, respectively. (More samples...)