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
Download UCSF Chimera Tip: We recommend ChimeraX for higher performance and many new features instead of legacy Chimera Tip: Use Chimera's ChimeraX export to convert Chimera scenes to ChimeraX
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 ChimeraX can be downloaded free of charge for academic, government, nonprofit, and personal use
UCSF Chimera Home Page Chimera can display molecular dynamics trajectories in a variety of formats: AMBER, CHARMM, GROMACS, GROMOS, MMTK, NAMD, PDB, and X-PLOR All normal Chimera analysis and display capabilities are available with trajectories
UCSF Chimera Tutorials A set of tutorials is included in the Chimera User's Guide The expanded "Getting Started" tutorial is more suitable for printing (more self-contained rather than hyperlinked) than the above Video tutorials and tutorials from past Chimera workshops are also available
UCSF Chimera Documentation Index UCSF Chimera Documentation Index Using Chimera: User's Guide, latest production release: Main Index; Tutorials; Commands and Command-Line Quick Ref (PDF) Keyboard Shortcuts User's Guide, development version (includes very recent changes): Main Index Tutorials and How-To Videos on the Web Guide to Volume Data Display; Movie Command Mini-Examples
UCSF Chimera Feature Highlights Chimera Interface to Modeller Chimera provides a graphical interface to running the program Modeller, either locally or via a web service hosted by the UCSF RBVI Two types of calculations are available: Comparative (homology) modeling
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 See also: ChimeraX Documentation
Citing UCSF Chimera Molecular graphics and analyses performed with UCSF Chimera, developed by the Resource for Biocomputing, Visualization, and Informatics at the University of California, San Francisco, with support from NIH P41-GM103311
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