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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VMD can load and display volumetric data sets, including electron density maps, electron orbitals, potential maps, and various types of user-generated volumetric data. The VMD plugin library contains support for a large number of volumetric file formats. Users can also import their own data file formats by writing their own loader scripts using the "mol volume" command. Volumetric data can be rendered using "VolumeSlice" or "Isosurface" representations, each of which provides several geometric rendering styles for viewing the data, varying isolevels, slice plane position, etc.
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Overview

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

Download

Download (all versions)
VMD 1.8.7 (MacOS X, Unix, Windows)
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 and NAMD CUDA/OpenCL talks at SC2009 part of Parallel@Illinois
Investigating Interfaces of Macro-Molecular Complexes with Intervor
Probing Biomolecular Machines with Graphics Processors, CACM, 2009.
VMD QuicktimeVR/Flash rendering of PDB structures
VMD 1.8.7 released for MacOS X, Unix, and Windows (August 2009)
Visualisation of Cyclic and Multi-Branched Molecules with VMD, JMGM, 2009
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)
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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