UCSF Chimera Version 1.7 has been released. UCSF Chimera is a highly extensible program for interactive visualization and analysis of molecular structures and related data, including density maps, supramolecular assemblies, sequence alignments, docking results, trajectories, and conformational ensembles.

New Tools:

• APBS (Surface/Binding Analysis) — interface to Poisson-Boltzmann electrostatics calculations with APBS, using either a web service provided by the National Biomedical Computation Resource (NBCR) or a locally installed copy
• AutoDock Vina (Surface/Binding Analysis) — interface to single-ligand docking with AutoDock Vina, using either a web service provided by the National Biomedical Computation Resource (NBCR) or a locally installed copy
• Model/Refine Loops (Structure Editing) — interface to Modeller for building missing parts or refining existing parts (the former Model Loops tool only performed the latter and did not facilitate combining the refined and unchanged parts)
• Notepad (Utilities) — allows entering descriptive text that can be saved along with sessions
• PDB2PQR (Structure Editing) — interface to structure cleanup and charge/radius assignment with PDB2PQR, using either a web service provided by the National Biomedical Computation Resource (NBCR) or a locally installed copy