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Structure of the trehalose-6-phosphate phosphatase from Brugia malayi reveals key design principles for anthelmintic drugs. Farelli JD, Galvin BD et al. PLoS Pathog. 2014 Jul 3;10(7):e1004245.
Regulation of the mammalian elongation cycle by subunit rolling: a eukaryotic-specific ribosome rearrangement. Budkevich TV, Giesebrecht J et al. Cell. 2014 Jul 3;158(1):121-31.
Protruding knob-like proteins violate local symmetries in an icosahedral marine virus. Gipson P, Baker ML et al. Nat Commun. 2014 Jul 2;5:4278.
Enhancing UCSF Chimera through web services. Huang CC, Meng EC et al. Nucleic Acids Res. 2014 Jul;42(Web Server issue):W478-84.
Structural rearrangements of a polyketide synthase module during its catalytic cycle. Whicher JR, Dutta S et al. Nature. 2014 Jun 26;510(7506):560-4.
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May 13, 2014
Chimera production release 1.9 is now available. See the release notes for new features since the 1.8 release series.
April 23, 2014
A production release candidate (version 1.9) is now available; please try it and report any problems. See the release notes for changes relative to the previous release.
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.
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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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The ConSurf Server provides results as Chimera Web data; after browser configuration, a single click displays the color-coded query structure and multiple sequence alignment with phylogenetic tree and custom headers in a locally installed copy of Chimera (details).
Special thanks to Elana Erez and the Ben-Tal and Pupko groups at Tel Aviv University, and to Fabian Glaser at the Technion.
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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...)