[chimerax-users] Chimera and ChimeraX commercial license

[Tom Goddard]

Hi Jai,

  1 Gbyte of memory is very small.  I guess if Windows 10 can run with such little memory, then probably Chimera and ChimeraX can start, but the programs may not be able to handle opening large molecules. Today's PCs most often have 8 or 16 Gbytes of memory and those can handle visualization of most protein structures.  If you look at very large structures (1 million atoms) or open hundreds of structures you might need 32 or 64 Gbytes of memory.  Also if you look at large cryoEM or X-ray maps you may need those larger memory sizes.

  The bottom line is that you will only determine if Chimera and ChimeraX can work on a machine with 1 Gbyte by trying it with the data you want to visualize.  For doing such tests you do not need a commercial license.  Just try the free version of the program to make sure it will work on the machines before you buy a license.

	Tom


> On Mar 15, 2022, at 11:16 AM, Elaine Meng via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hello Jai,
> Thanks for your interest!
> 
> I cannot speak to the hardware requirements -- maybe somebody else can confirm?
> 
> Commercial licensing information is on this page:
> <https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/commercial_license.html>
> 
> Please note that Chimera and ChimeraX are licensed separately, and that the page above links to some forms that can be filled out, and sent with other needed information to the contact address given therein.
> 
> Best,
> Elaine
> -----
> Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.                       
> UCSF Chimera(X) team
> Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
> University of California, San Francisco
> 
>> On Mar 15, 2022, at 10:44 AM, Jai Vekeria via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello,
>> My name is Jai, I am a data scientist at Tectonic Therapeutics in Watertown MA, I would like to purchase 5 commercial licenses for Chimera and ChimeraX, I am assuming based on the little technical information included on the product page, that any windows 10 64-bit machine would suffice, we have some machine with a 1 Gb of ram and a 1.2Ghz processor and no GPU that we plan to use. 
>> Thanks,
>> Jai
> 
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