ChimeraX Developer Wiki

ChimeraX is a desktop application for molecular visualization and analysis, with an emphasis on molecular assemblies.

​ChimeraX Home Page

Developer meetings

Change log

Feature and Implementation discussions

​Registered users, citations and downloads (1500, 430, 50000, up to November 2020)

Documentation

• ​user guide
• ​quick start
• ​programming manual

Builds

​Daily builds

• How to restart the daily builds
• ​Linux daily build log
• ​Windows daily build log
• ​Mac daily build log

​Release bundles on toolshed

How to add a Trac user (such as a new bundle developer)

Getting ChimeraX source code

​Version Control using git

Windows Development Requirements

Linux Development Setup

Building Linux Bundles

Nightly Linux build using Docker (historical)

Hardware

• ​vizvault VR instructions
• vizvault stereo instructions
• ​Computer Hardware for Chimera / ChimeraX

Funding

• NETE contract, Aug 2020
• COVID-19 Fast Grant
• ​NIAID R24 due May 25 and Sept 25, 2020
• ​NIGMS R24 due June 15, 2020 and June 15, 2021
• Useful Phenix tools, Tristan Croll, April 21, 2020
• Phenix ChimeraX projects, Tristan Croll, April 10, 2020
• MSC Contract Deliverables, July 2019 - Feb 2020
• MSC Contract Ideas, Feb 2019
• NIH grant aims, Jan 2016