Greetings to all, I'm a novice user of Chimera, and I downloaded it recently with the intention to use it also for calculating molecular surfaces as input for UCSF DOCK.From the documentation I haven't understood if the latest version of Chimera is able to do that. on Thu, 19 Dec 2002 Eric Pettersen wrote, answering to Eckhart Guthöhrlein , same date: "The current version of Chimera (12/02; build 1602) doesn't have the capability to prepare an ms file suitable for DOCK, though we anticipate that capability being in the next release (~ 3/03). " If, as I suspect, it's still not possible this use of Chimera, could you tell me if and when it will be?Do you perhaps know of alternatives still functioning on WindowsXP systems ( I'm a novice even about SGI ) or the better choice for me is still to study how to run old DMS on Irix? Thank you for your patience, Roberto Sanavio Politecnico di Milano tel. +39-031-513453 cell. +39347-5894996 e-mail: rsdag@libero.it