Summary
Source: http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/; http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/
License: UCSF Chimera is licensed for noncommercial use at no cost. Please have a look at http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/licensing.html and http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/licensing.html
Path: /opt/xray/chimera-<version> (or /opt/xray/chimera for the current version)
Documentation: http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docindex.html
Citations: see http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/credits.html
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.UCSF 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 licensing.
ChimeraX is developed with support from National Institutes of Health R01-GM129325 and the Office of Cyber Infrastructure and Computational Biology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Using chimera
Either use the full path or initialize the environment with the module command:
module load xray
chimera --version
# chimera production version 1.16 (build 42360) 2021-12-17 06:46:26 UTC
chimerax --version
# UCSF ChimeraX version: 1.3 (2021-12-08)
The xray-module just provides access to the core binary. For the full setup use the chimera-module, but be aware that it has side-effects in particular on your python environment.
module load maxwell chimera which chimera # /opt/xray/chimera-1.16/bin/chimera which python # /opt/xray/chimera-1.16/bin/python # ------------------------ which ChimeraX # /opt/xray/chimerax-1.3/bin/ChimeraX which pip # /opt/xray/chimerax-1.3/bin/pip
Please note: chimera works best with Nvidia and ATI proprietary drivers, intel graphics works ok with limitations. Running chimera on a remote host (ssh) is very problematic and will most likely fail with messages about GL drivers not being loaded.
