[Chimera-users] Visualizing gaussian output files in UCSF chimera

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Prathvi,
Sorry no, Chimera does not read Gaussian log files.  Here's the page listing the formats Chimera knows:

<https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/filetypes.html>

For Gaussian, I only see "Gaussian formatted checkpoint" (.fchk) and "Gaussian cube grid" (.cube, .cub).

Best,
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.                       
UCSF Chimera(X) team
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco

> On Jan 18, 2022, at 4:47 AM, Prathvi Singh via Chimera-users <chimera-users at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hello again Elaine,
> 
> I have one more question. Is there a way to open & visualize a gaussian output file (it has extension of .log) in UCSF chimera?
> 
> I found that if you convert the .log file to .mol file using gaussian's software GAUSSVIEW, you can visualize the .mol file in chimera. However, the identity of the residues is lost; all the residues are shown as UNK. Is there a better way to do this?
> 
> Thanks again & always
> 
> -- 
> Prathvi Singh,
> Research Fellow,
> Department of Biological Sciences & Bioengineering,
> Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur-208016