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.