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Activation of human STING by a molecular glue-like compound. Li J, Canham SM et al. Nat Chem Biol. 2024 Mar;20(3):365-372.

Native architecture of a human GBP1 defense complex for cell-autonomous immunity to infection. Zhu S, Bradfield CJ et al. Science. 2024 Mar 1;383(6686):eabm9903.

A new family of bacterial ribosome hibernation factors. Helena-Bueno K, Rybak MY et al. Nature. 2024 Feb 29;626(8001):1125–1132.

Transition of human γ-tubulin ring complex into a closed conformation during microtubule nucleation. Brito C, Serna M et al. Science. 2024 Feb 23;383(6685):870-876.

SlyB encapsulates outer membrane proteins in stress-induced lipid nanodomains. Janssens A, Nguyen VS et al. Nature. 2024 Feb 15;626(7999):617–625.

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October 30-31, 2023

Planned downtime: The Chimera and ChimeraX websites and associated web services will be unavailable Oct 30 8am PDT – Oct 31 11:59pm PDT.

April 19, 2023

Chimera production release 1.17.1 is now available, fixing an issue with 1.17 for Windows and Linux. See the release notes for details.

April 13, 2023

Chimera production release 1.17 is now available. Updating is required to keep using the tools that run Blast Protein, Modeller, and multiple sequence alignment with Clustal Omega or MUSCLE, as these will soon stop working in older versions. See the release notes for details.

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Please note that UCSF Chimera is legacy software that is no longer being developed or supported. Users are strongly encouraged to try UCSF ChimeraX, which is under active development.

UCSF Chimera is a program for the interactive visualization and analysis of molecular structures and related data, including density maps, trajectories, and sequence alignments. It is available free of charge for noncommercial use. Commercial users, please see Chimera commercial licensing.

We encourage Chimera users to try ChimeraX for much better performance with large structures, as well as other major advantages and completely new features in addition to nearly all the capabilities of Chimera (details...).

Chimera is no longer under active development. Chimera development was supported by a grant from the National Institutes of Health (P41-GM103311) that ended in 2018.

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RR Distance Maps 2gbp and 2fw0

Distance Maps and Contact Maps

RR Distance Maps creates a distance map, a generalization of a protein contact map in which residue-residue distances are shown with color gradations. The map can show the Cα-Cα distances within an individual protein chain or the averages and standard deviations for multiple related chains (as in the figure). A simple binary coloring like a standard contact map can also be obtained.

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Peroxiredoxin Wreath

Peroxiredoxins are enzymes that help cells cope with stressors such as high levels of reactive oxygen species. The image shows a decameric peroxiredoxin from human red blood cells (Protein Data Bank entry 1qmv), styled as a holiday wreath.

See also the RBVI holiday card gallery.

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