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Chimera Tutorials

A set of tutorials is included in the Chimera User's Guide.

The expanded "Getting Started" tutorial is more suitable for printing (more self-contained rather than hyperlinked) than the above.

Tutorials from past Chimera workshops are also available.

This page contains still more tutorials.

Movie making tutorial from publication images and movies course (July 29, 2008).
Exercises from July 2008 volume data display course. Coloring using electrostatic potential, viewing crystal difference maps, solvent occupancy map, morphing between maps, erasing part of a map, tracing surfaces in tomograms.
Density maps. (March 2007). Coloring, morphing, and fitting maps. Plus basic map display and comparison of sequences and structures. Human RNA polymerase II example.
Molecular bracelet. Creating an image with per-model clipping and silhouette edges; creating a short movie.
Chaperonin. Displaying electrostatic potential and crystallographic density map, and fitting model into EM density map.
Guide to Volume Data Display in Chimera. Example images and how-to instructions for volume data display features.
How to show a virus capsid. Example using Rhinovirus 2 bound to cellular receptor fragment.
GroEL tutorial. Density map and PDB model display.
Semliki forest virus tutorial. Density map and PDB model display.