Chimera

Background

UCSF Chimera is a highly extensible program for interactive visualization and analysis of molecular structures and related data, including density maps, supramolecular assemblies, sequence alignments, docking results, trajectories, and conformational ensembles. High-quality images and animations can be generated.

History

You can read about the historical development of Chimera and its previous incarnations on this SBGrid post: Wired models wired (Archived May 11, 2019: bit.ly/2Gwl2SM)

Tutorials

Tutorial(s)

TUTORIAL 1 – CSF Chimera I: molecular graphics:

(Last updated: September | October 2017)

UCSF Chimera I: molecular graphics: (same content, different formats)
- HTML, HTML (biocStyle), HTML (prettydoc), HTML (rmarkdown)
- PDF, PDF (biocStyle)
- DOCX

REFERENCES

Pettersen, E.F., Goddard, T.D., Huang, C.C., Couch, G.S., Greenblatt, D.M., Meng, E.C., and Ferrin, T.E. “UCSF Chimera – A Visualization System for Exploratory Research and Analysis.” J. Comput. Chem. 25:1605-1612 (2004). Pubmed: 15264254. DOI:10.1002/jcc.20084
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