Work in Progress: Dec 1, 2022
Stuff you probably know that I do:
- answer questions on the Chimera and ChimeraX mailing lists
- test and document features, otherwise update the
User Guide; some recents:
- add website news items (e.g. version 1.5 released)
- update the ChimeraX Change Log
- add website feature highlights and example images
Stuff you might be only marginally aware of:
- update citations lists
- find latest citations of our papers using
Web of Science (1-2x/week I go through those added
since I last looked)
- find each on
PubMed,
or if not on PubMed, Google to find direct link, add to HTML files
organized by year; these are listed in our intranet index
- ~weekly: update ChimeraX citations graph linked to the
download page
- ~weekly: choose a few to put in the Chimera and ChimeraX featured citations
- time-consuming but useful to give a larger feel for the uses/misuses
of the software, not just to count citations or find the most featurable
- commercial licensing:
- maintain/update commercial
licensing info page
(the previous version had fillable PDFs instead of Kim's
“smartsheet”)
- original assignment was simply to generate and send out license keys
when admin (Joanne, then Cheryl, now Kim) tells me the license agreement
and payment are in hand:
- verify the pieces of info needed to generate the license key and message
- use form on our intranet to generate the license key
- send email message based on form letters
for Chimera and ChimeraX that we have in Google docs, with minor edits
to reflect the specific situation (primary user name, number of users, etc.)
- (lately) try to update shadow spreadsheet,
occasionally answer other questions, try not to freak out about
long-unanswered queries or get pressured into answering people who didn't
read the instructions; currently we get a handful/day (10 yesterday)
taking up to an hour to deal with, even if I don't answer...
although admittedly half of that may be stewing
and trying to remember what I was working on before the interruption
- now that Kimberly's new process is in place (smartsheet form
linked to commercial licensing page), I plan to stop updating the shadow
spreadsheet. Unfortunately some long-unswered queries may have fallen between
the cracks, but my capacity to worry about them has been worn down.
Meng /
UCSF Resource for Biocomputing, Visualization, and Informatics