First off, you should know that it can generate high-quality images and animations. When it comes to features, the utility offers more than you would be tempted to believe upon first sight. Comes with an extensive set of visualization and analysis tools It also comes with a hefty documentation section that you should take a bit of time to read, as it may help you cut in half the learning period. Therefore, UCSF Chimera sacrifices a bit of practicality for the sake of offering a distraction-free environment for molecule analysis. Upon first launching the application, you are met by an almost too simple main window with nothing more than a visualization panel and a compact menubar, unlike other molecular analysis tools that usually go with extensive toolbars. Offers a set of useful features and a clear-cut interface
UCSF Chimera is a streamlined yet powerful piece of software that aims to provide you with all the necessary tools for visualizing and analyzing molecular structures.įurthermore, the app is well-equipped for interactive visualization purposes as well as for analyzing density maps, supramolecular assemblies, conformational ensembles, trajectories, docking results and sequence alignments. It also impacts the fetching of PDB and mmCIF entries, and that has been revised as well. Those functions have been revised to use the new APIs that replace the legacy APIs. The retirement of legacy RCSB PDB web service APIs impacts the fetching of UniProt sequence annotations and fetching additional information about BLAST hits.