[Chimera-users] release candidate

[Eric Pettersen]

Hi,
	We've put out a "release candidate" for download (version 1.2056).  
We're hoping people will download it and try it and report any problems 
they find before we make a production release version in early January. 
  The production release candidate will be functionally identical to the 
production release, except that we will fix any bugs reported between 
then and now.  There are some new features in the 1.2056 release, and 
if you are interested in those you should really try it out so that if 
you find any problems they will be fixed in the production release.  
Here's a synopsis of the major new features since the 1.2038 release:

NEW TOOLS:

Surface Area/Volume (Utilities) - calculate surface areas and Voronoi 
volumes
   with the StrucTools server at 
http://molbio.info.nih.gov/structbio/basic.html

TOOL CHANGES:

Movie - support added for MMTK/NetCDF trajectory format
  - RMSD maps containing all-by-all comparisons among specified frames
  can be calculated (for all atoms or selected atoms)

Volume Viewer - support added for APBS electrostatic potential format 
and
   TOM toolbox EM density map format

sequence panel (opened from Model Panel) - secondary structure shown 
with color

NEW COMMANDS:

matrixget - write the current transformation matrices to a file

matrixset - read and apply the transformation matrices from a file

mmaker (matchmaker) - command implementation of MatchMaker; generates a
  sequence alignment for two structures and then superimposes the 
structures
  accordingly

BUGS FIXED:

large structures without HELIX/SHEET records now much faster to open
   (fixed bug in secondary-structure computation)

non-default ribbon scalings from pre-1.2038 versions no longer cause 
bombing
   on startup (1.2038 would die at startup for such)


	Eric Pettersen
	UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
	pett at cgl.ucsf.edu