UCSF Chimera Release 1.4

Release timeframe: Summer 2009

Feature Discussion

Core Features

1. Pull mmcif connectivity information from a web service. The current mmcif connectivity template file is 20MB uncompressed and constantly out of date. Rather than including the file in our release, the proposal is to include only the most common entries and pull the rest from a web service, as needed. Entries will be cached once they are downloaded, and the user will be able to download the entire file, should they desire.
2. CMS Surface code.
3. 64-bit Mac Aqua build for large volume data applications. TG
   • We had discussed having this happen when OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) comes out. It's supposedly slated for Q1 2009. EFP
4. Higher quality lighting and transparency using OpenGL shaders. TG
5. Off-screen image saving (using opengl write-to-texture?) so machine does not become unusable during animation encoding. TG

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Large Assemblies (Core 2)

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