ChimeraX Developer Meeting

Attendance: Eric, Zach, Tom

December 5, 2022

Agenda

• PyQt 6.4 working?
• Remove UI bundle from toolshed?
• Update prereqs now?
• ChimeraX 1.5.1 release needed? RCSB ligands. Backport fixes (Eric)?
• ChimeraX 1.6 roadmap.
• Make Chimera release this year?
• Back up the Chimera build machine to a solid state drive, Windows 7?
• Toolshed bundle requirement checking
• Discuss possible OpenMM and VR improvements for Tristan and Altos to pursue
• Arrow graphic for Mac dmg file

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Discussion

• Reviewed twitter mentions of ChimeraX
  • Youtube tutorial using SEQCROW Conformation Search tool
  • OpenAI ChatGPT chat bot advising on ChimeraX command usage.

• ChatGPT
  • Confuses ChimeraX and Chimera
  • Does not understand atomspec syntax.
  • Zach says it was trained on 2018 online data.
  • Diplomatic.
  • Not ready to replace us.

• Chimera release, when?
  • Wynton upgrade CentOS 7 to Rocky 8 in Spring 2023 will be the end of Opal web services.
  • Eric will see if Opal web services can be replaced with ChimeraX ones.

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Action Items

• Present github continuous integration tutorial. Zach
• Beta releases on Toolshed - make ticket for this. Greg