ChimeraX Developer Wiki

ChimeraX is a desktop application and a web browser application for molecular visualization and analysis, with an emphasis on molecular assemblies. We expect an initial release in late 2014.

Developer meetings

Documentation ​user guide, ​quick start, ​programming manual, and ​pdbimages from nightly build

Nightly builds:

• ​Download page
• ​Mac OS X dmg (​build log)
• ​Linux tar gz file (​build log)

Getting ChimeraX source code

Features and Implementation

ChimeraX Release Requirements and Needed Command Functionality

ChimeraX User Functionality

​Development schedule.

ChimeraX Base Scorecard

Current ChimeraX Commands and Mouse Modes

February 2 Demo

Deferred discussion topics/issues

Molecular graphics attributes

Undo Manager

Graphics API

Logging/status API

Proposed notifications architecture

​Hydra features March 2014.

Support optical microscopy?

Resources for getting up to speed with wxPython

​Qt and wxWidgets developer support, March 2014.

ChimeraX Feature Advertisement, HTML ​with and ​without further discussion topics (ECM 4 Mar 2015 I consider it done until we decide to list more things)

ChimeraX ​atomspec writeup

Trac Documentation

You can use trac-admin to configure ​Trac to better fit your project, especially in regard to components, versions and milestones.

• TracGuide -- Built-in Documentation
• ​The Trac project -- Trac Open Source Project
• ​Trac FAQ -- Frequently Asked Questions
• TracSupport -- Trac Support

For a complete list of local wiki pages, see TitleIndex.