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<p>Dear all,<br>
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<p>I am trying to visualize a rather large structure (8280 chains with 620 amino acids each) as ribbons in Chimera, starting from a biological unit. I was able to reduce the required memory to something my Linux machine can handle (i7 with 64GB memory) by providing
a file with just C-alpha atoms. Chimera successfully displays the copies as surfaces, and also starts to convert all the displayed chains into ribbons (chains as ribbon: finished), but then becomes unresponsive, runs with 100% CPU usage on one core for several
hours and finally crashes. Is this a known problem/limitation and is there some workaround to display such large structures?<br>
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<p>Thanks,<br>
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<p>Thomas<br>
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