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Julián P, Konevega AL et.al. Structure of ratcheted ribosomes with tRNAs in hybrid states. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2008 Nov 4;105(44):16924-7.
Freiberg AN, Sherman MB et.al. Three-dimensional organization of Rift Valley fever virus revealed by cryoelectron tomography. J Virol. 2008 Nov;82(21):10341-8.
Johnson CH, Egli M, Stewart PL Structural insights into a circadian oscillator. Science. 2008 Oct 31;322(5902):697-701.
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November 17, 2008
A new production release candidate addressing Microsoft Windows graphics drivers problems, particularly with integrated graphics accelerator chips, is now available. Release 1.3 candidates are available for all platforms including a Mac Aqua version that does not require X windows.
November 16, 2008
With the upcoming production release of Chimera we are changing our version numbering to clarify major releases and allow us to provide critical bug fixes while working on newer versions. The upcoming release will be release 1.3. Critical bug fixes (if any) to 1.3 will be released as 1.3.1, 1.3.2, etc., and the next major release of Chimera will be release 1.4.
September 23, 2008
Chimera's next production release (date TBA) will be the last for IRIX and Tru64. Daily builds for these platforms will be halted at that time.
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UCSF Chimera is a highly extensible program for interactive visualization and analysis of molecular structures and related data, including density maps, supramolecular assemblies, sequence alignments, docking results, trajectories, and conformational ensembles. High-quality images and animations can be generated. Chimera includes complete documentation and several tutorials, and can be downloaded free of charge for academic, government, non-profit, and personal use. Chimera is developed by the Resource for Biocomputing, Visualization, and Informatics and funded by the NIH National Center for Research Resources (grant P41-RR01081).
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Space Navigator is an inexpensive ($60) USB input device from 3Dconnexion for moving and rotating models in 3 dimensions. This animation (8 Mb) shows docking a phage enzyme (PDB 1v0e) into an electron microscopy map (EMDB 1333) using a space navigator and mouse. Works with Windows and Mac Chimera versions (details).
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The image shows interactions of the delta-1 loop with the rest of hepatitis C virus RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (Protein Data Bank entry 1quv). Loop residues in contact with the rest of the structure (van der Waals overlap ≥ 0.01 Å) are displayed as sticks; interacting surface atoms are shown as red patches. (More samples...)