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.
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| EM fitting tutorial using HIV spikes and ParM filaments from EMBO practical course "The combination of electron microscopy and x-ray crystallography for the structure determination of large biological complexes" held in Grenoble, France, October 2009. |
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| Movie making tutorial from movie making course at UCSF library (May 5, 2009). |
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| Movie making tutorial from publication images and movies course (July 29, 2008). |
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| 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. |
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| Density maps. (March 2007). Coloring, morphing, and fitting maps. Plus basic map display and comparison of sequences and structures. Human RNA polymerase II example. |
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| Molecular bracelet (February 2007). Creating an image with per-model clipping and silhouette edges; creating a short movie. |
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| Chaperonin. Displaying electrostatic potential and crystallographic density map, and fitting model into EM density map. |
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| Guide to Volume Data Display in Chimera. Example images and how-to instructions for volume data display features. |
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| How to show a virus capsid. Example using Rhinovirus 2 bound to cellular receptor fragment. |
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| GroEL tutorial. Density map and PDB model display. |
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| Semliki forest virus tutorial. Density map and PDB model display. |