Past Announcements
2020
- NAMD and VMD part of the team winning the ACM COVID-19 Gordon Bell Prize for 2020
- The Coronavirus Unveiled, VMD visualizations of SARS-CoV-2, NYT, 2020
- VMD + NVIDIA Ommniverse Folding @ Home Coronavirus Movie, NVIDIA, 2020
- Scalable Analysis of Authentic Viral Envelopes on FRONTERA, CiSE, 2020
- Scalable molecular dynamics on CPU and GPU architectures with NAMD, JCP, 2020
- VMD test builds for MacOS X 10.15 "Catalina" (April 24, 2020)
2019
- Atoms to Phenotypes: Molecular Design Principles of Cellular Energy Metabolism, Cell, 2019
- An Accessible Visual Narrative for the Primary Energy Source of Life from the Fulldome Show Birth of Planet Earth: Movie | Paper
- High-Performance Analysis of Biomolecular Containers to Measure Small-Molecule Transport, Transbilayer Lipid Diffusion, and Protein Cavities, JCIM, 2019
- Birth of Planet Earth excerpt created using VMD selected for Siggraph Electronic Theater, Siggraph 2019
- 19,200 human protein structures visualized with VMD, Kresten Lindorff-Larsen
- NanoShaper-VMD interface: computing and visualizing surfaces, pockets and channels in molecular systems, Bioinformatics, 2019
2018
2017
2016
- GPU-Accelerated Molecular Dynamics Clustering Analysis with OpenACC, Parallel Programming with OpenACC, 2016
- QwikMD - Integrative Molecular Dynamics Toolkit for Novices and Experts, Scientific Reports 2016
- Molecular dynamics-based model refinement and validation for sub-5Å cryo-electron microscopy maps, eLife 2016
- Early Experiences Porting the NAMD and VMD Molecular Simulation and Analysis Software to GPU-Accelerated OpenPOWER Platforms, LNCS 2016
- Immersive Molecular Visualization with Omnidirectional Stereoscopic Ray Tracing and Remote Rendering, HPDAV 2016
- TopoGromacs: Automated Topology Conversion from CHARMM to GROMACS within VMD, JCIM 2016
- High Performance Molecular Visualization: In-Situ and Parallel Rendering with EGL, HPDAV 2016
- Evaluation of Emerging Energy-Efficient Heterogeneous Computing Platforms for Biomolecular and Cellular Simulation Workloads, HCW 2016
- Atomic Detail Visualization of Photosynthetic Membranes with GPU-Accelerated Ray Tracing, J. Par. Comp. 2016
2015
2014
2013
- GPU-accelerated molecular visualization on petascale supercomputing platforms, UltraVis'13
- Early Experiences Scaling VMD Molecular Visualization and Analysis Jobs on Blue Waters, Proc. XSCALE, 2013.
- Force Field Toolkit (FFTK) tutorial screencasts
- Rapid parameterization of small molecules using ffTK, JCC, 2013.
- Most cited since 2008: "GPU-Accelerated Molecular Modeling Coming of Age"
- Lattice microbes: High-performance stochastic simulation method for the reaction-diffusion master equation, J. Comp. Chem, 2013.
- Workshop on GPU Programming for Molecular Modeling, August 2-4, 2013.
- VMD QuickSurf rendering of HIV-1 capsid on cover of Nature 497 (7451), 2013.
- VMD used for model building, preparation, and analysis of
64M-atom HIV-1 NAMD simulation on Blue Waters.
- Lattice microbes: High-performance stochastic simulation method for the reaction-diffusion master equation, J. Comp. Chem. 2013
- Visualization: A Cognition Amplifier, VMD Quantum Chemistry Visualization Tutorial, IJQC, 2013.
2012
2011
2010
2009
- 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)
- GPU Clusters for High Performance Computing., IEEE CLUSTER 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
2008
- VMD/NAMD at SC2008 conference, Nov 15-21, 2008
- NVIDIA Appoints First CUDA Center of Excellence
- Using VMD - an introductory tutorial Current Protocols - Bioinformatics, 5:Unit 5.7, 2008.
- Membrane Structural Biology book cover made with VMD
- GPU accelerated cutoff pair potentials, ACM Computing Frontiers, pp. 273-282, 2008
- GPU Computing paper, Proceedings of the IEEE, 96:879-899, 2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
- VMD 1.7.1 (MacOS-X, Unix, and Windows) released (12/23/2001)
- VMD and NAMD were demonstrated with
Sun Microsystems
and
NCSA
at
Supercomputing 2001, November 12-15, 2001
- VMD 1.7 reviewed at BioMedNet (9/14/2001)
- VMD 1.7 demo mentioned in the September 2001 CAD Report
- VMD, NAMD, JMV, and BioCoRE were demonstrated with Sun Microsystems at
Siggraph 2001, August 14-16, 2001
- VMD 1.7 (MacOS-X, Unix, and Windows) released (8/1/2001)
- VMD cover image on Biophysical Journal.
See the accompanying article for more VMD images. (5/2001)
- VMD 1.6.1 (MacOS-X, Windows, and Unix) released (4/22/2001)
- A System for Interactive Molecular Dynamics Simulation - Presented at Siggraph I3D 2001 (3/21/2001)
- Molecular Modeling in the Genomics Era - VMD included in The Scientist article (03/05/2001)
- Structural Biology Software Database Released (01/04/2001)
-
VMD: a graphical tool for the modern chemist - J. Comp. Chem., Volume 22, Issue 1, 2001 (VMD 1.4) (12/6/2000)
2000
1999
1998
1996
1995
- VMD 1.0 (Unix) released. (7/1/1995)
