Dear Elaheh Kashani-Amin,

There are U.S. export controls on sending software to Iran, but your use is within the terms of our license.  As such, we are unable to provide you with the software by sending it to you directly or by explicitly opening up our web site.

Sorry about the situation. 
Best regards,
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.                       
UCSF Chimera(X) team
Resource for Biocomputing, Visualization, and Informatics
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco


> On Oct 28, 2024, at 1:07 PM, Elaheh Kashani-Amin via Chimera-users <chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
>
> Dear Chimera developers,
>
> We are a research and education group based in Iran and have been
> using Chimera(X) to teach our students about homology modeling and
> molecular docking. Recently, we discovered that our access to your
> website has been denied. Although we can access it via VPN, we would
> like to inquire if we can legally use Chimera(X) for academic purposes
> and cite it in our papers.
> We would greatly appreciate it if you could provide us with legal
> access to your products.
>
> Thank you for your time and consideration.
>
> Best regards
>
> Elaheh Kashani-Amin
> PhD, Molecular Medicine