[Chimera-users] Doubt regarding Copyright for the use of UCSF Chimera free software in research paper

[aiswarya tressa chacko]

Thank you so much for your response Elaine 🥰

On Thu, 3 Nov, 2022, 9:46 pm Elaine Meng, <meng at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:

> Dear Aiswarya,
> Chimera is free for any noncommercial use.   It is free for educational
> purposes and academic research, including making figures and movies for
> your own publications.   Only a for-profit company would need to buy a
> commercial license.
>
> There is no Chimera copyright issue for publishing results, images and/or
> movies that you generated yourself by using the software. We only ask that
> you cite program properly as described here:
> <https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/credits.html>
>
> I hope this helps,
> Elaine
> -----
> Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.
> UCSF Chimera(X) team
> Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
> University of California, San Francisco
>
> > On Nov 3, 2022, at 5:35 AM, aiswarya tressa chacko via Chimera-users <
> chimera-users at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Sir/Madam,
> >
> > I am a post graduate student who is working on a research article which
> involves molecular docking and analysis. I am using the free software of
> UCSF Chimera (version 1.16) for obtaining results and analysing them. I am
> wondering whether using these results and images that I acquired from
> Chimera in my research study, will subject me to Copyright Issues.
> >
> > Kindly address my doubt as soon as possible.
>
>
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