Chimera

Tuesday Morning Practical

Chimera is a comprehensive tool for molecular/macromolecular visualization. It will be used as a complementary tool throughout the workshop, and will be required to fully participate in the practical sessions.

Tom Goddard, developer of Chimera volume capabilities will give the tutorial.

Installing Chimera

For the Tuesday, March 15 Chimera tutorial we will use Chimera production release 1.5.2 (or 1.5.3 is also ok if it is released before the workshop). Download and install it from the

Chimera download page.

There are 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Chimera on Linux, Mac and Windows. The 64-bit versions require Windows 7, or Mac OS 10.6 or 64-bit Linux. The 32-bit and 64-bit versions will work equally well for this tutorial. For large data sets (maps > 512 Mbytes) the 64-bit versions are preferred.

On Linux the installer is an executable (with ".bin" file suffix) that you run from a command-line. You may need to make it executable after you download it using unix command "chmod a+x chimera*.bin" in order to be able to run it.

On Windows the installer presents a standard graphical user interface that you click through.

On Mac the Chimera is distribution is a dmg file that you open then drag the Chimera application to wherever you want to put it.

After installing, you can check if Chimera is working by opening a molecular model or a density map, for example, start Chimera and use menu entries

• File / Fetch by ID / PDB / 6bna
• File / Fetch by ID / EMDB / 1094

Chimera Tutorial Data

Haven't figured this out yet. Check back February 28. Was planning on fitting in Rubisco cryoEM but that looks too complex for a 1 hour tutorial.