UCSF Chimera - A visualization system for exploratory research and analysis

@article{citeulike:598414, abstract = {The design, implementation, and capabilities of an extensible visualization system, UCSF Chimera, are discussed. Chimera is segmented into a core that provides basic services and visualization, and extensions that provide most higher level functionality. This architecture ensures that the extension mechanism satisfies the demands of outside developers who wish to incorporate new features. Two unusual extensions are presented: Multiscale, which adds the ability to visualize large-scale molecular assemblies such as viral coats, and Collaboratory, which allows researchers to share a Chimera session interactively despite being at separate locales. Other extensions include Multalign Viewer, for showing multiple sequence alignments and associated structures; ViewDock, for screening docked ligand orientations; Movie, for replaying molecular dynamics trajectories; and Volume Viewer, for display and analysis of volumetric data. A discussion of the usage of Chimera in real-world situations is given, along with anticipated future directions. Chimera includes full user documentation, is free to academic and nonprofit users, and is available for Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple Mac OS X, SGI IRIX, and HP Tru64 Unix from . {\copyright} 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Comput Chem 25: 1605-1612, 2004}, address = {Computer Graphics Laboratory, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, 600 16th Street, San Francisco, California 94143-2240}, author = {Pettersen, Eric F. and Goddard, Thomas D. and Huang, Conrad C. and Couch, Gregory S. and Greenblatt, Daniel M. and Meng, Elaine C. and Ferrin, Thomas E.}, citeulike-article-id = {598414}, doi = {10.1002/jcc.20084}, issn = {0192-8651}, journal = {Journal of Computational Chemistry}, keywords = {chimera, protein, visualisation}, month = {October}, number = {13}, pages = {1605--1612}, posted-at = {2007-12-21 14:17:38}, priority = {1}, title = {UCSF Chimera - A visualization system for exploratory research and analysis}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jcc.20084}, volume = {25}, year = {2004} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:598414 L3 - citeulike-article-id:598414 N2 - The design, implementation, and capabilities of an extensible visualization system, UCSF Chimera, are discussed. Chimera is segmented into a core that provides basic services and visualization, and extensions that provide most higher level functionality. This architecture ensures that the extension mechanism satisfies the demands of outside developers who wish to incorporate new features. Two unusual extensions are presented: Multiscale, which adds the ability to visualize large-scale molecular assemblies such as viral coats, and Collaboratory, which allows researchers to share a Chimera session interactively despite being at separate locales. Other extensions include Multalign Viewer, for showing multiple sequence alignments and associated structures; ViewDock, for screening docked ligand orientations; Movie, for replaying molecular dynamics trajectories; and Volume Viewer, for display and analysis of volumetric data. A discussion of the usage of Chimera in real-world situations is given, along with anticipated future directions. Chimera includes full user documentation, is free to academic and nonprofit users, and is available for Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple Mac OS X, SGI IRIX, and HP Tru64 Unix from . © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Comput Chem 25: 1605-1612, 2004 IS - 13 JF - Journal of Computational Chemistry SN - 0192-8651 AD - Computer Graphics Laboratory, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, 600 16th Street, San Francisco, California 94143-2240 EP - 1612 TI - UCSF Chimera - A visualization system for exploratory research and analysis VL - 25 SP - 1605 KW - chimera KW - protein KW - visualisation AU - Pettersen, Eric AU - Goddard, Thomas AU - Huang, Conrad AU - Couch, Gregory AU - Greenblatt, Daniel AU - Meng, Elaine AU - Ferrin, Thomas PY - 2004/10// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jcc.20084 ER -