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 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.
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

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

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