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)
Tutorial(s)
TUTORIAL 1 – CSF Chimera I: molecular graphics:
(Last updated: September | October 2017)
- UCSF Chimera I: molecular graphics: (same content, different formats)
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
- More references on Chimera features and methodology