Hello Aurelie, When there is a tar.gz file you have to (1) unzip it (the .gz part) and then you also have to (2) un-tar it, which would produce the multiple output files. This is a general computer file thing and not specifically related to ChimeraX or SwissDock, and details of how to un-tar depend on what computer system you have. Maybe google "how to open a tar file" to help you figure it out. After you have done the untar and you have the multiple output files, if they include some .pdb files you may be able to open them in ChimeraX, e.g. using the "open" command... something like open myswissdockresults.pdb format swissdock See ChimeraX ViewDockX help <https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/tools/viewdockx.html> I hope this helps, 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 Aug 13, 2024, at 6:55 AM, Aurélie Hoeffel via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:

Dear Chimeras members, I would be interested to use chimera x for interpreting some results of my docking. I precise it is the first time I use swiss dock as well as chimera x, after receiving the swiss dock file in a tar.gz format, I compress it via 7Zip but then chimera x, is not able to process and open my document, ii is just written, tar data ,Unrecognized file suffix '.tar', so I do not kwo if the pb come from chimera or swiss dock, do you know how I can solve the problem? Thanks in advance, Aurelie