Examples using UCSF Chimera

Image gallery and animation gallery..

Volume display demonstration showing x-ray and EM maps, July 2008 Chimera course.

Crystal contacts of cowpea mosaic virus (2006).

Experimental features not yet included in the Chimera distribution (2006).

Guide to volume data display (2006).

Immune T-cell and microtubule demonstration notes. Demonstration at workshop on Visualization Tools for Cellular Complexity at Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry (2006).

Tomography and light microscopy of cells. Talk given at workshop on Visualization Tools for Cellular Complexity at Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry (2006).

Progress and plans for analyzing large assemblies. Prepared for NCRR site visit to renew Chimera funding (2006).

Placing markers on maps for analysis and modeling. Talk given at the Workshop on Multiscale Biological Imaging, Data Mining and Informatics (2006).

Demonstration showing myosin thick filament density map display and fitting given at Automated Molecular Imaging Forum, Scripps (2005).

Tubulin showing electrostatic potential, crystallographic density map, and fitting model to EM density map. Presented at Chimera workshop at UCSF, November 2005.

Thermosome model used to illustrate display of large multimeric systems at various resolutions. Presented at Chimera workshop at UCSF, November 2005.

Comparison of virus capsid shapes (2005) to surfaces obtained by linearly interpolating between an icosahedron and a sphere.

Large biomolecular complexes workshop presentation (2005). Shows ribosome, virus, and GroEL visualizations.

Tutorials for density map display, and exploring large complexes (2005).

Visualization of virus capsids. (2004)

Chimera Poster (2002) showing

Talk on multi-scale modeling of viruses and chromosomes (2002).

Visualizing volume data (2001) including x-ray and electron microscope density maps, electrostatic potentials, solvent occupancy maps, and multi-channel light microscope volumes.

Chromosome structure analysis (2001) using electron and light microscopy from John Sedat's lab at UCSF.

Virus structure analysis (2001) using electron microscope data from Wah Chiu's lab at Baylor College of Medicine.

General structure analysis capabilities (1999) including display of mobility, ensembles, superpositions, residue properties, chemical groups, and addition of hydrogen atoms.

Writing Extensions

The Programmer's Guide includes examples demonstrating the Python programming interface to Chimera, and a frequently asked questions section.