Chimera (Chimaera or Khimaira) is a mythical creature which is believed to be formed of three different animals; a lioness, a goat and a snake. Chimera's head was that of a lioness while she had a goat's head on her back and a snake's head at the tip of her tail. The term genetic chimera has been used at least since the 1944 article of Belgovskii. An animal chimera is a single organism that is composed of two or more different populations of genetically distinct cells that originated from different zygotes involved in sexual reproduction.
Chimera definition is - a fire-breathing she-monster in Greek mythology having a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail. How to use chimera in a sentence.
UCSF Chimera is a program for the interactive visualizationand analysis of molecular structures and related data,including density maps, trajectories, and sequence alignments.It is available free of charge for noncommercial use.Commercial users, please seeChimera commercial licensing.
We encourage Chimera users to try ChimeraXfor much better performance with large structures, as well as other majoradvantagesand completely new features. ChimeraX includes a significant subset of Chimera features (with more to come, see the missing features list)and is under active development.Users may choose to use both programs, and it is fine to have both installed.
Chimera is no longer under active development, and is only updated for critical maintenance.Chimera development was supported by a grant from the National Institutes of Health (P41-GM103311)that ended in 2018.
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Chimera Investment Corporation
Morphing Density Maps
Related density maps can be compared bymorphing from one to the other.Several intermediate maps are generated by interpolating between the starting and ending maps.The morph can be viewed interactively and recorded as a movie.The contour level can be adjusted automatically to keep the enclosed volume constant throughout the morph, and other aspects of map display can be adjusted withVolume Viewer.
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Orexin Receptor Complex
Chimera
UCSF Chimera is a program for the interactive visualizationand analysis of molecular structures and related data,including density maps, trajectories, and sequence alignments.It is available free of charge for noncommercial use.Commercial users, please seeChimera commercial licensing.
We encourage Chimera users to try ChimeraXfor much better performance with large structures, as well as other majoradvantagesand completely new features. ChimeraX includes a significant subset of Chimera features (with more to come, see the missing features list)and is under active development.Users may choose to use both programs, and it is fine to have both installed.
Chimera is no longer under active development, and is only updated for critical maintenance.Chimera development was supported by a grant from the National Institutes of Health (P41-GM103311)that ended in 2018.
Feature Highlight
Chimera Investment Corporation
Morphing Density Maps
Related density maps can be compared bymorphing from one to the other.Several intermediate maps are generated by interpolating between the starting and ending maps.The morph can be viewed interactively and recorded as a movie.The contour level can be adjusted automatically to keep the enclosed volume constant throughout the morph, and other aspects of map display can be adjusted withVolume Viewer.
(More features...)Gallery Sample
Orexin Receptor Complex
Chimera
The image shows the structure of the human OX2 orexin receptor bound to theinsomnia drug suvorexant, Protein Data Bank entry4s0v. The drug is shown as spheres colored by element,and the receptor as ribbons with secondary structure elementsrainbow-colored from blue at the N-terminus to red at the C-terminus.(More samples...)
