[Chimera-users] Files generated by UCSF Chimera as .MRC format do not open with AMIRA 5.3.3

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Yolanda,
I’m not aware of anything special about the MRC files from Chimera.  It sounds like you simply don’t have a license to use the part of Amira that reads/handles MRC files, in which case you would need to contact the Amira folks about getting such a license.  Can you open any MRC files in Amira, like from sources other than Chimera?
Best,
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. 
UCSF Chimera(X) team
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco


> On Jun 12, 2017, at 9:18 AM, Savriama, Yoland F <yoland.savriama at helsinki.fi> wrote:
> 
> Greetings,
>  
> I am a researcher working at the University of Helsinki (Finland) and I have used the software UCSF Chimera to process 3D CT-Scans data. I saved the process files as a single .MRC file. When I tried to open it with Amira 5.3.3 it displays the following error message:
>  
> "No valid licence found for extension Amira Microscopy Option 5.3 Please contact us". The console also says "Access denied for 'readMRCFileStack'"
>  
> I thought that Amira could read these standard .MRC files? Could it be there was an issue during the file export with Chimera?
>  
> Best wishes,
> Yoland Savriama, PhD
> P/O Jernvall
> Institute of Biotechnology
> P.O. Box 56 (Viikinkaari 5)
> FIN-00014 FINLAND