Place Object is a free plugin for UCSF Chimera for subtomogram averaging as described in this publication:

Qu K., Glass B., Dolezal M., Schur F.K.M., Murciano B., Rein A., Rumlova M., Ruml T., Kraeusslich H.-G., Briggs J.A.G. (2018) Structure and architecture of immature and mature murine leukemia virus capsids. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 115:E11751-E11760.

LICENSING
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This package is distributed under the GPL v.3 license for academic and non-commercial use.


INSTALLATION
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Decompress the PlaceObject-X.X.X.zip file under the UCSF Chimera share folder and rename it as PlaceObject.

    For Linux,
    /PATH/UCSF-Chimera64-1.xx.x/share/PlaceObject

    For MacOS,
    /Applications/Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/share/PlaceObject

    For Windows,
    X:\PATH\Chimera 1.xx.x\share/PlaceObject

Then, execute.
chimera -> Tools -> Utilities -> Place Object


CONTACTS
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Please contact the author K. Qu (sefiven@hotmail.com) for more information.

VERSION
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- 2.1.0
Cambridge 2021
Fix the tom_em file reading bug in Windows.

- 2.0.0
Cambridge 2020
Available to save the placeobject session with multiple lattice maps displayed in Chimera. Features modified by color and modeldisplay in the command line can be restored as well.
When open the saved session, please ignore and close the Chimera Error window. 

- 1.0.0
Heidelberg 2016

