[Chimera-users] FW: UCSF CHIMERA

[Elaine Meng]

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> From: Manjunath gl <glmanjunath.iitm at gmail.com>
> Date: Monday, May 15, 2017 at 11:02 PM
> To: "chimera at cgl.ucsf.edu" <chimera at cgl.ucsf.edu>
> Subject: UCSF CHIMERA
> 
> Hi 
> Please let me know can I use this software for geomaterial modeling?
> Thanks
> Dr. Manjunath

Hi Dr. Manjunath,
The address for questions about using Chimera is chimera-users at cgl.ucsf.edu (CC’d here).

The short answer is I don’t know, because “modeling” is such a broad and vague term.  People use Chimera for looking at the structures of molecules. It is usually used for biomolecules like proteins, but also small organic molecules.  It does not calculate bulk material properties or do large-scale simulations, if that’s what you mean.  To see what Chimera does, you should look at the information on the website:
<http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/index.html>

…. including some feature highlights
<http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/features.html>
… and the User’s Guide for more details
<http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/current/docs/UsersGuide/>

I hope this helps,
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. 
UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco