From owner-chemistry@ccl.net Fri Dec 13 12:28:00 2024
From: "Elaine Meng meng#,#cgl.ucsf.edu" <owner-chemistry+/-server.ccl.net>
To: CCL
Subject: CCL: ChimeraX version 1.9 released
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X-Original-From: "Elaine  Meng" <meng,cgl.ucsf.edu>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 12:26:17 -0500


Sent to CCL by: "Elaine  Meng" [meng],[cgl.ucsf.edu]
UCSF ChimeraX version 1.9 has been released!

ChimeraX includes user documentation and is free for noncommercial use.
Download for Windows, Linux, and MacOS from:
https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/download.html

Updates since version 1.8 (June 2024) include:

- Foldseek search and analysis of large sets of similar structures
- Find Cavities tool and "kvfinder" command to identify pockets
  and channels in macromolecules
- optional residue-level summaries of H-bond and contact calculations
- "mutationscores" command for analysis and plotting of results
  from deep mutational scanning
- "surface hidefarblobs" command for colocalization analysis of
  light microscopy channels
- raycasting option for medical images or other maps displayed as
  transparent volumes
- selection can be expanded to all residues associated with the same
  column(s) in a sequence alignment
- protein structure metadata can be updated with full chain sequences
- missing-structure pseudobonds are labeled with the number of missing
  residues (default, can be turned off in preferences)

For details, please see the ChimeraX change log:
https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/trac/ChimeraX/wiki/ChangeLog

On behalf of the team,
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.                       
UCSF Chimera(X) team
Resource for Biocomputing, Visualization, and Informatics
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco