Doubt regarding Copyright for the use of UCSF Chimera free software in research paper
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.
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@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.
Thank you so much for your response Elaine 🥰 On Thu, 3 Nov, 2022, 9:46 pm Elaine Meng, <meng@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@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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