Everything about System 6

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: System 6A 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Software update: The ORCA program system—Version 5.0Influential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: The Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: UCSF Chimera—A visualization system for exploratory research and analysisCited 45,719 times
5. Go sideways: Classic Mac OSA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Mac OS 8A closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• UCSF Chimera—A visualization system for exploratory research and analysis

  Eric F. Pettersen, Thomas D. Goddard, Conrad C. Huang · 2004 · Journal of Computational Chemistry · 45,719 citations

• PHENIX : a comprehensive Python-based system for macromolecular structure solution

  Paul D. Adams, Pavel V. Afonine, Gábor Bunkóczi · 2010 · Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography · 24,280 citations

• The ERA‐Interim reanalysis: configuration and performance of the data assimilation system

  D. P. Dee, S. M. Uppala, A. J. Simmons · 2011 · Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society · 21,055 citations

• Numerical integration of the cartesian equations of motion of a system with constraints: molecular dynamics of n-alkanes

  Jean-Paul Ryckaert, Giovanni Ciccotti, Herman J.C Berendsen · 1977 · Journal of Computational Physics · 20,356 citations

• General atomic and molecular electronic structure system

  Michael W. Schmidt, Kim K. Baldridge, Jerry A. Boatz · 1993 · Journal of Computational Chemistry · 19,287 citations

• NMRPipe: A multidimensional spectral processing system based on UNIX pipes

  Frank Delaglio, Stephan Grzesiek, GeertenW. Vuister · 1995 · Journal of Biomolecular NMR · 14,101 citations

• The 2016 World Health Organization Classification of Tumors of the Central Nervous System: a summary

  David N. Louis, Arie Perry, Guido Reifenberger · 2016 · Acta Neuropathologica · 13,789 citations

• An automated labeling system for subdividing the human cerebral cortex on MRI scans into gyral based regions of interest

  Rahul S. Desikan, Florent Ségonne, Bruce Fischl · 2006 · NeuroImage · 13,573 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Software update: The ORCA program system—Version 5.0

  Frank Neese · 2022 · WIREs Computational Molecular Science · 5,246 citations

• Global, regional, and national burden of disorders affecting the nervous system, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

  Jaimie D Steinmetz, Katrin Maria Seeher, Nicoline Schiess · 2024 · The Lancet Neurology · 2,120 citations

• Robot Operating System 2: Design, architecture, and uses in the wild

  Steven Macenski, Tully Foote, Brian Gerkey · 2022 · Science Robotics · 1,673 citations

• CBTRUS Statistical Report: Primary Brain and Other Central Nervous System Tumors Diagnosed in the United States in 2015–2019

  Quinn T Ostrom, Mackenzie Price, Corey Neff · 2022 · Neuro-Oncology · 1,567 citations

• Software Update: The ORCA Program System—Version 6.0

  Frank Neese · 2025 · WIREs Computational Molecular Science · 1,459 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• The Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin · 1791
• Romeo and Juliet (adaptation)William Shakespeare, John McDonald · 1748
• Management information systemsKenneth C. Laudon, Jane P. Laudon · 1945
• Some thoughts concerning educationJohn Locke · 1693
• Computer NetworksAndrew S. Tanenbaum, John David Wetherall · 1981
• Eyewitness crystal & gemR. F. Symes, R Harding · 1991
• Management information systemsJames A. O'Brien · 1990
• Interactive computer graphicsEdward Angel · 1997

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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