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UCSF ChimeraX (or simply ChimeraX) is the next-generation molecular visualization program from the Resource for Biocomputing, Visualization, and Informatics (RBVI), following UCSF Chimera. ChimeraX can be downloaded free of charge for academic, government, nonprofit, and personal use. Commercial users, please see ChimeraX commercial licensing.
ChimeraX is developed with support from National Institutes of Health R01-GM129325, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative grant EOSS4-0000000439, and the Office of Cyber Infrastructure and Computational Biology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
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Cartoon ribbons are drawn to pass through the exact positions of peptide α-carbons in helix and coil, but by default, strands are smoothed to appear less ripply. This means that α-carbons in strands may not fall on the ribbon. A tether is drawn wherever a sidechain is displayed but would otherwise be detached from the ribbon. (Tether appearance can be adjusted with cartoon tether.)
However, β-strand ribbon smoothing can be tuned continuously between zero (off) and 1.0 (default, fully on), and this can be done for all residues or for specific residues only. The image compares ribbon positions for residues 139 and 164 in the active site of mandelate racemase (PDB 2mnr) with and without smoothing. The unsmoothed position (transparent blue) can be obtained with:
cartoon :139,164 smooth 0
This leaves ribbon smoothing at other residues unchanged. Values between 0 and 1 would give intermediate positions.
More features...Example Image
The photosynthetic reaction center from a
purple sulfur bacterium is shown as a cartoon with “tube” helices
and membrane boundaries from the OPM database (Orientations of Proteins in Membranes,
entry 1eys).
Blue and red balls represent the cytoplasmic and periplasmic sides
of the bacterial inner membrane, respectively.
The title and other text labels were added with the
2dlabels
command and repositioned interactively with the move label
mouse mode
.
ChimeraX session file: prc.cxs
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