[Chimera-users] Chimera-users Digest, Vol 42, Issue 19

[Jonathan Hilmer]

Although this does not relate to your question on licensing, is there
any particular reason you're using such a complicated workflow?
Chimera can be used to generate basic geometry (sphere/cylinder) from
PDB files via povray, but so could any import system you have for the
3D modeling software.  You would also lose the benefit of
chemistry-centered structure for manipulation or selection: chains,
residues, etc.

I've been using Blender to handle complicated chemical models for a
while now, and it wasn't that difficult to implement the import of
various data types.  With BioPython pdb files become trivial, and
volumetric data sets are (very) difficult but possible.

Jonathan



> Hello-
>
> Do any of you have an idea of how much a single commercial license for Chimera would cost?
>
> I'm a 3D artist/animator/biology student that works at in the art dept. of a biotech company. I'm interested in the exporting .pdb files to .pov, then converting to .3ds to import to 3ds max.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lydia Jablonski