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?
• Multifit
  • cyclic symmetry (~80% done)
  • asymmetry subunit (to-do)

Improvements

• Fetch by Id
  • Use a default download directory?

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

• Improvements for Modeller interface
  • loop refinement
  • improved output of multiple sequence alignments
  • added option to include water (done)
  • added option to include non-water ligands (done)
• Improvements for SAXS interface
  • added legend/Chi value for figures (done)
  • added more advanced options, e.g. background/hydration (already done in 1.5)
• 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)