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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.
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. Current Production Releases
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 is a highly extensible, interactive molecular visualization and analysis system. Chimera can read molecular structures and associated data in a large number of formats, display the structures in a variety of representations, and generate high-quality images and animations suitable for publication and presentation.
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 .
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.
UCSF Chimera Non-Commercial Software License Agreement. This license agreement ("License"), effective today, is made by and between you ("Licensee") and The Regents of the University of California, a California corporation having its statewide administrative offices at 1111 Franklin Street, Oakland, California 94607-5200 ("The Regents"), acting through its Office of Technology Management, University of California San Francisco ("UCSF"), 600 16th Street, Suite S272, San Francisco, California ...
Protein-Ligand Binding Sites (included in the User Guide ). Contains click-to-execute links. Surveying the parts of a structure, showing important residues, identifying H-bonds and contacts, and coloring surfaces by lipophilic and electrostatic potential.
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.
Tip: We recommend ChimeraX for higher performance and many new features instead of legacy Chimera. Current Production Releases See the release notes for a list of new features and other information.
