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
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
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 Commercial users, please see ChimeraX commercial licensing
Getting Started with UCSF Chimera With Chimera started and the Command Line opened as described at the beginning of Part 1, fetch the structure of entry 1d86 from the Protein Data Bank (PDB): Command: open 1d86 The structure contains the molecule netropsin bound to double-helical DNA, initially shown with ribbons and stylized representations of the nucleic acid sugars and bases
UCSF ChimeraX vs. Chimera ChimeraX and Chimera are different programs, with different interfaces and capabilities that overlap significantly, but not completely ChimeraX has capabilities that go far beyond those in Chimera, including completely new tools and other major advantages such as better performance on large data ChimeraX is under active development and is based on modern software frameworks that extend its
UCSF ChimeraX User Guide UCSF ChimeraX is the successor program to UCSF Chimera In ChimeraX, menu: Help User Guide shows this page in the ChimeraX browser General
UCSF Chimera Tutorials 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 This page contains still more tutorials
RBVI Publications UCSF Chimera, MODELLER, and IMP: an integrated modeling system Yang Z, Lasker K, Schneidman-Duhovny D, Webb B, Huang CC, Pettersen EF, Goddard TD, Meng EC, Sali A, Ferrin TE
Citing UCSF Chimera UCSF Chimera is developed by the UCSF Resource for Biocomputing, Visualization, and Informatics, supported in part by the National Institutes of Health Citations are important for demonstrating the value of our work to the NIH and other sources of support