= ChimeraX Developer Meeting =

Attendance: Zach, Tom, Eric, Piet

August 5, 2024

= Agenda =

* ChimeraX 1.7.1 !PyPi package fails to import #15650
* Work in progress reports
* Develop ChimeraX 1.9 road map
* Progress updating prereqs
* Make Chimera end-of-life bug report and registration changes.
* Back up the Chimera build machine to a solid state drive, Windows 7.
* ChimeraX Ideas milestone clean-up.


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= Discussion =

* ChimeraX PyPi package
  - Zach will look at it

* BLAST databases
  - Zach will make web service look at blast/db instead of blast/db_current.
  - Need to check of uniref and nr databases are in db.
  - Tom will make esmfold blast database.

* Animation tool
  - Piet done with Schol-AR for now, waiting for USC fixes.
  - Scooter suggests Piet work on an initial animation tool.
  - Can work on generic animation of camera motion, model motion, model display.
  - Eric suggests that specific model types (structure, volume) will be responsible for interpolating colors, opacity and styles.

* Handling large sequence and structure alignments
  - Tom working on combining BLAST and Foldseek sequence and structure visualization.
  - Eric getting closer to getting Profile Grids working for large sequence alignments.

* Plato new hardware
  - All 4 nodes have new CPUs and 1 Tbyte memory.
  - Scooter says beegfs latency dropped significantly with hardware update, not known why.

* Mac Intel ChimeraX being run on Mac ARM
  - Several users report bugs using Intel Mac ChimeraX on Mac ARM.  Not clear how they got the Intel instead of Universal.
  - Tom will look at web logs to see who is downloading Intel Mac ChimeraX.


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= Action Items =

* Zach fix MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET for bundle builder cythonize() by putting it in environment.