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Table of Contents

• Chimera
• ChimeraX
• VMD
• Pymol

Overview

There are currently several molecular viewers that support RMFs:

Chimera

The Chimera research group has provided support for loading and interacting with RMF files. Chimera supports

• interactive display of restraints and restraint scores
• geometry

While support for RMF was added to the Chimera 1.9 stable release, only the nightly builds of Chimera work with the very latest RMF features. So if Chimera is unable to read an RMF file, first try updating to the latest nightly build.

ChimeraX

A plugin to add support for RMF to ChimeraX is available as part of the ChimeraX Toolshed. It requires a recent version of ChimeraX (>= 0.91) or a nightly build.

VMD

We provide a plugin for VMD. Instructions for how to install it can be found on the VMD plugin page. The plugin supports

• multiresolution modules using the RMF::decorator::Alternatives decorator
• multiple states stored using the RMF::decorator::State decorator
• fast loading
• displaying restraints as bonds
• static geometry

Pymol

We provide a plugin for Pymol. Instruction can be found at the Pymol plugin page. The plugin supports creating multiple molecules from one RMF based on chains or RMF::decorator::Molecule labels as well as dynamics geometry.