CCL: new Chimera release

["Elaine Meng" <meng ~ cgl.ucsf.edu>]

 Sent to CCL by: "Elaine  Meng" [meng^cgl.ucsf.edu]
 Hello everyone,
 A new production release of UCSF Chimera (1.2422) is available from
 http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/download.html
 Chimera is free for noncommercial use, includes full documentation,
 and is available for several platforms including Windows, Mac, and Linux.
 Here are just a few of the changes in the last year or so:
 - embedded POV-Ray for making glossy, shadowed images; labels included
 - ability to supersample or raytrace when recording movies
 - presets for interactive use and publication image scenarios
 - more input formats: MDL MOL/SDF, CIF/mmCIF, Gromacs trajectories
 - more Fetch by ID types:
         EDS (fo-fc) electron density difference map
         PQS predicted biological unit
         VIPERdb viral capsid structures
 - can morph between homologs as well as different conformations
 - interactive clash/contact detection
 - partial charge assignment:
         Amber (Cornell et al.) for standard residues
         embedded Antechamber to calculate charges for nonstandard residues
 - sequence alignment viewer allows sequence addition, deletion, reordering
 - can optimize overlay of density maps
 - Side View includes "top view" for adjusting stereo params
 interactively
 - session files smaller, restore faster
 - improved preferences handling
 - updates to handle new atom/res naming conventions in remediated PDB
 For more details on recent changes, see:
 http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/relnotes/1.2422.html
 http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/relnotes/1.2417.html
 http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/relnotes/1.2304.html
 Best Regards,
 Elaine
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 Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.                          meng^cgl.ucsf.edu
 UCSF Computer Graphics Lab and Babbitt Lab
 Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
 University of California, San Francisco
                      http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/meng/index.html