UCSF Chimera Home Page UCSF Chimera is a program for the interactive visualization and analysis of molecular structures and related data, including density maps, trajectories, and sequence alignments It is available free of charge for noncommercial use Commercial users, please see Chimera commercial licensing
Download UCSF Chimera Download Chimera Current Production Releases See the release notes for a list of new features and other information For more recent changes, use the snapshot and daily builds; they are less tested but usually reliable 64-bit Releases: 32-bit releases are no longer supported Daily Builds New builds are made when the code changes
UCSF ChimeraX Home Page UCSF ChimeraX (or simply ChimeraX) is the next-generation molecular visualization program from the Resource for Biocomputing, Visualization, and Informatics (RBVI), following UCSF Chimera
UCSF Chimera Home Page Chimera can display three-dimensional electron and light microscope data, x-ray density maps, electrostatic potential and other volumetric data Contour surfaces, meshes and volumetric display styles are provided and thresholds can be changed interactively
UCSF Chimera Tutorials Video tutorials and tutorials from past Chimera workshops are also available This page contains still more tutorials Calculate and visualize APBS electrostatic potential by Thomas Evangelidis Comparing different ligands of the same protein December 11, 2017
Chimera Users Guide The Chimera Quick Reference Guide (PDF) summarizes command-line usage Chimera documentation, including the User's Guide, is bundled with each download Your local copy of the documentation can be accessed and searched from the Chimera Help menu
Download UCSF ChimeraX ChimeraX is the state-of-the-art visualization program from the Resource for Biocomputing, Visualization, and Informatics at UC San Francisco It is free for academic, government, nonprofit, and personal use; commercial users, please see commercial licensing Please cite ChimeraX in publications
Chimera on 64-bit Microsoft Windows Platforms Chimera will not perform well on computers lacking a fast processor or a good-performing OpenGL graphics card (And just because your computer works fine with the game Quake doesn't necessarily mean it will perform well with a scientific application such as Chimera )
Chimera on amd64 x86_64 64-bit Linux Platforms - cgl. ucsf. edu Chimera uses a web browser to display help files If chimera is unable to display help files, you can fix it by setting your BROWSER environment variable to "firefox" or "kfm" before running Chimera (i e , type export BROWSER=firefox at the unix command line)
UCSF ChimeraX vs. Chimera By contrast, Chimera has reached end-of-life and is no longer being developed or supported While ChimeraX has new areas of application and far greater capabilities than Chimera, it is also intended to serve as a replacement for Chimera for most users