UCSF ChimeraX: Meeting modern challenges in visualization and analysis
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UCSF ChimeraX is next‐generation software for the visualization and analysis of molecular structures, density maps, 3D microscopy, and associated data. It addresses challenges in the size, scope, and disparate types of data attendant with cutting‐edge experimental methods, while providing advanced options for high‐quality rendering (interactive ambient occlusion, reliable molecular surface calculations, etc.) and professional approaches to software design and distribution. This article highlights some specific advances in the areas of visualization and usability, performance, and extensibility. ChimeraX is free for noncommercial use and is available from http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax / for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
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The authors modeled KRAS G12C and presented areas of binding of sotorasib at the allosteric pocket under the Switch II loop region in the GDP-bound state of KRAS using ChimeraX software.
“We have modeled KRAS G12C and presented areas of binding of the medicine sotorasib at the allosteric pocket under the Switch II loop region (Fig. 2) in the GDP-bound state of KRAS using ChimeraX software from UCSF13,14.”
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- Authors
- Goddard, T. D., Huang, C. C., Meng, E. C., Pettersen, E. F., Couch, G. S., Morris, J. H., & Ferrin, T. E.
- Affiliations
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- Corresponding author
- Ferrin, Thomas E.
- Venue
- Protein Science
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2017-09-06
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 14-25
- ISSN
- 0961-8368 (ISSN-L)
- 1469-896X
- PMC
- PMC5734306
- OpenAlex
- W2734356283
- Cited by
- 5,267
- References
- 55
- Citations by year
- 2026: 650 · 2025: 900 · 2024: 956 · 2023: 748 · 2022: 658 · 2021: 612 · 2020: 484 · 2019: 181 · 2018: 60 · 2017: 9 · 2016: 1 · 2013: 1
- FWCI
- 85.48
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Protein Science (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences (P41‐GM103311)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › Enzyme Structure and Function
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design › Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Protein Structure and Dynamics
- Keywords
- molecular visualization, density maps, 3D microscopy, software extensibility, software usability, software performance, open-source visualization software
- MeSH terms
- Software, Molecular Structure, Imaging, Three-Dimensional
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