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
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 ----- 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
Dear Elaine, Thank you for your reply. Actually, I wanted to ensure that using the software is not illegal and prohibited in our research procedures. So, based on your reply, it seems that we are allowed to use the software. Thank you for your time. Best regards, Elaheh Kashani-Amin PhD, Molecular Medicine On Wed, 30 Oct 2024, 21:18 Elaine Meng, <meng@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
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 ----- 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
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