VMD - Visual Molecular Dynamics

VMD is a molecular visualization program for displaying, animating, and analyzing large biomolecular systems using 3-D graphics and built-in scripting. VMD supports computers running MacOS-X, Unix, or Windows, is distributed free of charge, and includes source code.
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Spotlight

VMD can now make movies easier than ever before, with the use of a movie plugin that takes care of the entire movie making process. The vmdmovie plugin generates one of several built-in movie types, according to user selectable options. Once preferences and selections are made, the movie generator takes control of VMD and takes care of the entire process, from the generation of individual movie frames using on-screen snapshots or ray tracers, image format conversion staging of the image data for compression, invocation of movie compressor programs, and final disk space cleanup and temporary file deletion. This makes the whole process of making movies much simpler for inexperienced users.
Other Spotlights

Overview

Molecular representations
Supported molecular file formats
GPU-accelerated computing
Interactive molecular dynamics
Required software
Programs that use VMD
VMD publications
How to cite VMD, Papers citing VMD

Download

Download (all versions)
VMD 1.8.6 (MacOS-X, Unix, Windows)
VMD plugin library
VMD script library
License, Copyright and Disclaimer

Documentation and Support

User and installation guides
Quick help
FAQ
VMD-L mailing list
Bug List

News and Announcements

2009 VMD Calendar
VMD/NAMD at SC2008 conference, Nov 15-21, 2008
NVIDIA Appoints First CUDA Center of Excellence
Using VMD - an introductory tutorial Current Protocols - Bioinformatics, 2009. In press.
Membrane Structural Biology book cover made with VMD
GPU accelerated cutoff pair potentials paper, ACM Computing Frontiers, pp. 273-282, 2008
GPU Computing paper, Proceedings of the IEEE, 96:879-899, 2008
J. Comp. Chemistry cover image made with VMD
GPU-accelerated molecular modeling paper, J. Comp. Chem, 28:2618-2640, 2007
Nature Biotechnology cover image made with VMD (Jul 2007)
VMD 1.8.6 (MacOS-X, Unix, Windows) (Apr 2007)
VMD outline rendering style inspired by the work of David S. Goodsell (Apr 2007)
Create 3-D PDFs with VMD and Acrobat3D (Feb 2007)
Advanced VMD/Tachyon figure rendering (Feb 2007)
VMD Images and Movies Tutorial (Jan 2007)
Past announcements

Gallery

Gallery of Posters, Images, and Movies made with VMD
Events and tutorial picture gallery

Development

VMD User Survey Results
VMD development status and pre-release test downloads
CVS source code access
VMD Programmer's documentation

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