Chimera

Chimera（凯米拉/奇美拉）

厄喀德那和堤丰的后代，“Chimera”在希腊语里的意思是“山羊”，它拥有羊身、狮头（赫西奥德的《神谱》中记载有说它有三个头）和蛇尾，会喷火，最终被骑着飞马的贝勒洛方所杀。也有人说它是九头蛇许德拉的后代，或说是厄喀德那和她的儿子双头犬所生。在中世纪的叙事诗、绘画、雕刻和建筑中常会出现。凯米拉的来源众说纷纭，比较切实的说法认为它产于利西亚火山区，该火山的山脚下盛产蛇类，较高的山坡上盛产山羊，荒凉的山顶则是火山口，有狮子出没其中，因此凯米拉可能是这一地区的隐喻。

另外，“凯米拉”在英语里还有“妄想，奇想”的意思，能够把蛇、山羊和狮子这几种风马牛不相及的东西拼凑在一起的确非“奇想”莫属。

UCSF Chimera

免费的交互式分子模型显示程序，加州大学旧金山分校开发，功能强大，对与个人、学术等非营利机构使用免费。除了分子模型显示，还有序列显示、药物筛选等功能。

使用此软件查看、分析核酸和蛋白质等生物分子的立体空间结构，能了解其功能结构间关系，对改造利用分子，开展基因工程操作十分有用。

From:

http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/

UCSF Chimera is a highly extensible, interactive molecular visualization and analysis system. Chimera can read molecular structures and associated data in a large number of formats, display the structures in a variety of representations, and generate high-quality images and animations suitable for publication and presentation. In addition, Chimera provides tools to: show density maps and analyze microscopy data; utilize symmetry information for the display of higher-order structures; display multiple sequence alignments, with crosstalk between the sequences and structures; and enable analysis of molecular dynamics trajectories and docking results.

Chimera is distributed with full documentation and a number of tutorials, and can be downloaded free of charge for academic, government, non-profit, and personal use. Chimera is available for several platforms, including Windows, MacOS X, and Linux. For more information, see the Chimera web site. Chimera is developed and supported by the Resource for Biocomputing, Visualization, and Informatics and is funded by the NIH National Center for Research Resources (grant P41-RR01081).

另外在暴雪的游戏魔兽争霸3中是暗夜精灵种族的一个兵种，中文译作奇美拉。