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
Programs that use VMD
VMD research publications
How to cite VMD, List of 6,480 papers citing VMD (Feb 2012)

Download

Download (all versions)
VMD 1.9.1 (MacOS X, Unix, Windows)
VMD 1.9 (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

Lattice microbes: High-performance stochastic simulation method for the reaction-diffusion master equation, J. Comp. Chem. 2013
Force Field Toolkit (FFTK) tutorial screencasts
Fast Visualization of Gaussian Density Surfaces for Molecular Dynamics and Particle System Trajectories, EuroVis 2012
VMD 1.9.1 (MacOS X, Unix, Windows)
2012 VMD Calendar
2012 Hands-on Computational Biophysics Workshop
2011 VMD User Survey Report
Immersive out-of-core visualization of large-size and long-timescale molecular dynamics trajectories, LNCS, 2011
Fast Analysis of Molecular Dynamics Trajectories with Graphics Processing Units — Radial Distribution Function Histogramming, J. Comp. Phys, 2011
Illinois Researcher Named NVIDIA CUDA Fellow
Immersive Molecular Visualization and Interactive Modeling with Commodity Hardware, ISVC 2010
GPU-Accelerated Molecular Modeling Coming of Age, JMGM, 2010
Past announcements

Gallery

Gallery of Posters, Images, and Movies made with VMD
VMD running in the NanoDome at Temple University

Development

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