Viewers Viewers are named active entities that display objects. The operations provided by a viewer are specific to the viewer and the type of objects it displays. Typically viewers provide browsing, creation, and editing functionality on objects within their domain. Views Views denote a pair where is a viewer for an object . Note that an object may be displayed by more than one viewer, and thus participate in multiple views.
Views contain anchors.
Anchors Anchors are defined and managed by viewers in the context of a view. An anchor tags some portion of a view as an item of interest. Anchors are tailored by a viewer to the particular view of the object being displayed. Even when creating anchors on the view of an object, the underlying object may be left unmodified, still usable by tools unaware of Chimera's existence. Links A link is a set of anchors.