VIDA 3.0.0

August 2011

New Features

  • Added dynamic help system

  • Added new 2D depiction color schemes: black on white, white on black, color on white and color on black

  • Added new molecule coloring schemes: amino, chain, group, cpk, cpknew, shapely, bfactor, formal charge, and partial charge

  • Added new surface hydrophobicity scales: charifson, eisenberg, kyte-dolittle, and white-octanol

  • Added support for reading attached grids and surfaces in OEB files

  • Added support for reading Spicoli geometric annotations

  • Added support for reading FRED receptor files

  • Added new hydrogen style: polar hydrogens only

  • Added multiple new atom and bond label types (including one for OEChem generic data)

  • Added new 3D display mouse maps for Coot and PyMol

Improvements

  • Anti-aliasing of text and 2D depictions

  • Much better control over placement of dock windows

  • Dock windows can be stacked on top of each other in tabs

  • Single toolbar at the top of the application

  • Additional popup toolbars placed around edge of main window

  • Enabled grid contour transparency

  • Hydrogen style is now a molecule specific property instead of a global property

  • C-Alpha trace display is now a molecule specific property instead of a global property

  • Ribbon display is now a molecule specific property instead of a global property

  • Many miscellaneous 3D rendering improvements and accelerations

  • Many miscellaneous user interface improvements

Major Bug Fixes

  • Upgraded to OEChem 1.5 which fixed a number of bugs

Minor Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a problem on some graphics cards where only aromatic rings would be drawn when a molecule was in stick mode