Chimera 2 Advantages

Chimera 2 Advantages

Chimera 2 provides several advantages relative to Chimera 1, and the list will continue to grow:

Fast, robust solvent-excluded surfaces [more...]

All-in-one window in which tool interfaces are panels that can be shown, hidden, and repositioned

[bigger network example]

Each tool panel may display HTML with links and images, plots (matplotlib), or network diagrams (NetworkX)

Tool Shed manager allowing tools to be installed or updated separately, with dependencies handled correctly

High-performance manipulation and rendering of large numbers of atoms

Fast mmCIF reader

Ambient occlusion lighting mode [more...]

Virtual reality camera mode for Oculus Rift goggles [more...]

Related thoughts (not meant for final version)

Potential additions?

Improved command-line specification, with some simplifications and the addition of parentheses [summary Chimera2 vs. Chimera1, details]
Complete logging in a way that allows easy re-execution? (e.g. even menu actions translated to commands)

Further down the road:

Web app for desktop use? ...what about smartphones and tablets??

What about scientific applications? Here are some previous presentations by Tom G with Chimera2 ideas:

The IMP/RMF tool mentioned in the latter (setup and visualization of solutions and restraints violations) could bear similarities to these existing 3rd-party Chimera1 extensions: