Proposed Chimera 1.6 Additions

New Features

• Animation
  • Scene manager
  • Key frame timeline manager
• Stereo movies?
  • Upload to ​YouTube
  • Blu-ray stereo format?
• Extension manager?
  • Lower on priority list
  • Perhaps use chimerax for 50% solution
• Dome-viewing support?
  • Experimental or production?

Improvements

• Fetch by Id
  • Use a default download directory?

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