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 provides user-editable "materials" which can be applied to molecular geometry. These material properties control the details of how VMD shades the molecular geometry, and how transparent or opaque the displayed molecular geometry is. With this feature, one can easily create nice looking transparent surfaces which allow inner structural details to be seen within a large molecular structure. The material controls can be particularly helpful when rendering molecular scenes using external ray tracers, each of which typically differ slightly.
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

VMD/Tachyon ambient occlusion lighting tutorial updated for VMD 1.8.7 (June 2009)
Outline shading tutorial updated for VMD 1.8.7 (June 2009)
Visualisation of Cyclic and Multi-Branched Molecules with VMD, JMGM, 2009
High performance computation and interactive display of molecular orbitals on GPUs and multi-core CPUs, ACM GPGPU-2, 2009
Multilevel summation of electrostatic potentials using graphics processing units, Journal of Parallel Computing, 2009
2009 VMD Calendar
J. Comp. Chemistry cover image made with VMD
GPU-accelerated molecular modeling paper, J. Comp. Chem, 28:2618-2640, 2007
Create 3-D PDFs with VMD and Acrobat3D (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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