UCSF ChimeraX
UCSF ChimeraX (or simply ChimeraX)
is the next-generation molecular visualization program from the
Resource for Biocomputing,
Visualization, and Informatics (RBVI),
following UCSF Chimera.
ChimeraX can be downloaded free of charge
for academic, government, nonprofit, and personal use.
Commercial users, please see
ChimeraX commercial licensing.
ChimeraX is developed with support from National Institutes of Health R01-GM129325.
ChimeraX on Bluesky:
@chimerax.ucsf.edu
Worms are specialized cartoons in which “fatness”
reflects the values of an
attribute
such as bfactor or seq_conservation.
In the example image, the average atomic B-factor per amino acid residue
is shown with both coloring and worms.
The structure is a trimer of E. coli porin
(PDB 1pho).
For image setup, see the command file
worms.cxc.
Worms are available in ChimeraX v1.8 daily builds 3/12/24 and newer.
Worms and coloring by attribute can be done with the
Render by Attribute
tool or commands
cartoon
byattribute
(aka worm)
and color
byattribute.
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The photosynthetic reaction center from a
purple sulfur bacterium is shown as a cartoon with “tube” helices
and membrane boundaries from the OPM database (Orientations of Proteins in Membranes,
entry 1eys).
Blue and red balls represent the cytoplasmic and periplasmic sides
of the bacterial inner membrane, respectively.
The title and other text labels were added with the
2dlabels
command and repositioned interactively with the move label
mouse mode
.
ChimeraX session file: prc.cxs
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