Chimera

Overview

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.

Restrictions on use

The licence for Chimera is restricted to non-commercial purposes. In order to use Chimera you will need to be added to the relevant group. A copy of the license agreement can be found here:

http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/license.html

In order to use this software, please read the license and email its-ri-team@manchester.ac.uk to indicate you agree to the licence restrictions.

Set up procedure

In order to use Chimera you will need to load the Chimera module:

module load apps/binapps/chimera/1.13.1

Running the application

Chimera is an interactive graphical application. It should not be run on the headnode, rather it should be run on one of the interactive nodes.

module load apps/binapps/chimera/1.13.1
qrsh -l short -V chimera