Chimera2 provides several advantages relative to Chimera1,
and the list will continue to grow. A small sample is given here:
- High-performance manipulation and rendering of large numbers of atoms
- Fast mmCIF reader
- Fast and robust solvent-excluded surfaces with clean patch boundaries
- All-in-one window in which tool interfaces are panels that can be
shown, hidden, and repositioned
- Tool Shed manager allowing tools to be installed
or updated separately, with dependencies handled correctly
- Each tool panel may display HTML with links and images, plots,
or network diagrams
- Ambient occlusion lighting mode
- Virtual reality camera mode for Oculus Rift goggles