Proposed Chimera 1.6 Additions

New Features

• Animation (Darren)
  • Scene manager
  • Key frame timeline manager
• Stereo movies (Greg)
  • Upload to ​YouTube
  • Blu-ray stereo format is not nearly as important since we don't expect to distribute on BD discs
  • Low priority. Implement only if easy.
• Extension manager (Eric)
  • Lower on priority list
  • chimerax provides 50% solution
• Dome-viewing support (Greg)
  • Experimental for Windows only
• Multifit (YZ)
  • cyclic symmetry (~80% done)
  • asymmetry subunit (to-do)

Improvements

• Fetch by Id (TomG)
  • Use a default download directory.
• Improvements for Modeller interface (YZ)
  • loop refinement ... at very least, giving the single best conformation per loop as it doesn't require changing the output handler; multiple conformations per loop requires more complicated handling
  • improved output of multiple sequence alignments from Chimera to make Modeller input
  • added option to include water (done)
  • added option to include non-water ligands (done)
• Improvements for SAXS interface (YZ)
  • added legend/Chi value for figures (already done in 1.5)
  • added more advanced options, e.g. background/hydration (already done in 1.5)

(Eric) If extension manager lowered/suspended, then... (bolded == "feature-able")

• High chance
  • Nucleic-acid building
  • Metal geometry altloc/session support
• Medium chance
  • selection restriction for MatchMaker
  • progress on Profile Grids
  • grouping support in the Model Panel
  • trigger for user-initiated model close
• Low chance
  • browsable session thumbnails/descriptions
  • focus on partial surface
  • Oar+ idatm type
  • rework MD RMSD dialog to use matplotlib
  • 2D arrow outlines
  • UniProt markups via blast of sequence
  • easier access to descriptive chain info
  • MAV: non-structure residue number reporting
  • MAV: add seq from UniProt ID (+ markups)
  • CASTp session support (done)