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

Recent improvements to the data structures and algorithms used to display and analyze molecular structures in VMD have improved it's utility in bionanotechnology, and materials science where large structures, various types of non-biological matter, and non-polymeric structural elements are often present.
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 4,872 papers citing VMD (Oct 2010)

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

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

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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