UCSF ChimeraX version 1.8 has been released, and can be downloaded here. https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/download.html
This update includes
– show worm depictions of attribute values (B-factor, conservation, etc.)
using Render by Attribute tool or “cartoon byattribute” command
– show attribute values with atomic radii using Render by Attribute or
“size byattribute”
– Select by Attribute graphical interface
– Join Models generalized to any covalent bond (not just peptide)
– show multiple alternate locations simultaneously with “altlocs show”
– “pbond” command to create arbitrary pseudobonds
– “measure contactarea” to report the area of one surface within a cutoff
distance of another
– Segmentations tool for interactive manual segmentation in 2D slice views,
3D (desktop), or 3D (VR) can be applied to any volume data, not just
medical images; several fixes and ergonomic improvements including icons
to assign/deassign mouse and VR hand-controller modes with a single click
– set up and analyze batch AlphaFold predictions to search for
protein-protein interactions (commands for advanced users who can
run ColabFold directly on Linux)
