UCSF Chimera

UCSF Chimera: Interactive Molecular Modeling

Extensible molecular modeling and visualization program for interactive analysis and rendering of molecular structures and related data

What is UCSF Chimera?

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.

Chimera includes complete documentation and several tutorials. Core attributes include:

• highly integrated tools for interactive visualization
• fast rendering and rotatable images even for very large structures
• combination of structure data from PDB files, various types of density maps, sequence alignments, docking results, molecular dynamics trajectories, and other sources
• intuitive and consistent user interface shared among all components
• easily extensible through the customization and development of new tools with the included SDK

Intended uses of UCSF Chimera include examining protein-protein and protein-nucleic acid interactions, assembly of macromolecular complexes, virus particle glycoprotein spikes, organelle membranes, microtubules, and much more. It can also generate high-quality renderings for figures in publications.

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