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- .vmdrc
- Using text commands
- .vmdsensors
- Supported devices and how
- .vmdrc
- .vmdrc and vmd.rc Files
- vmd.rc
- .vmdrc and vmd.rc Files
- .mailcap
- Setting up your .mailcap
- -webhelper
- Setting up your .mailcap
- .vmdrc
- Hot Keys
- AMBER
- 
- files
- Loading A Molecule
 | Reading Frames
 
- analysis
- Sequence Zooming
- angles
- Label categories
- animate
- 
- command
- Tcl Text Commands
 | Tcl Text Commands
- form
- Animate Form
- Python module
- animate
 
- animation
- A Quick Animation
- amount
- Amount Chooser
- appending
- Reading Frames
- delete
- Deleting Frames
 | animate
 | animate
- edit
- Edit Animation Form
- goto end
- animate
- goto start
- animate
- hot keys
- Hot Keys
- jump
- Jumping to Specific Frames
 | animate
- movie
- Making a Movie
- play
- animate
- read
- Reading Frames
 | animate
- skip
- Animation Speed
- speed
- Animation Speed
 | animate
- style
- animate
- 
- loop
- Looping Styles
- once
- Looping Styles
- rock
- Looping Styles
 
- with user-defined graphics
- Animation
- write
- Writing Frames
 | animate
 
- animationduplicate frame
- animate
- antialiasing
- Display Form
 | display
- atom
- 
- changing properties
- Using the atomselect command
- coordinates
- rotate
 | scale
 | translate
- 
- changing
- Comparing Two Structures
 | Using the atomselect command
- min and max
- Coordinate min and max
 
- info
- atomselect
 | Using the atomselect command
- name lists
- Graphics Form
 | Atom Name Lists
- picking
- Comparing Two Structures
- selection
- Viewing a molecule: Myoglobin
 | An Introduction to Atom
 | Molecular Drawing Methods
 | Selection Methods
 | atomselect
 | Using the atomselect command
- 
- changing properties
- An atom selection example
- comparison
- Comparison selections
- default
- mol
- examples
- An Introduction to Atom
 | Selection Methods
- keywords
- Atom Name Lists
 | Selection Methods
 | Definition of Keywords and
 | Definition of Keywords and
- logic
- Short Circuiting
- math functions
- Definition of Keywords and
- modes
- Selection Methods
- Python
- Atom selections in Python
- quoting
- Quoting with Single Quotes
- regular expression
- Double Quotes and Regular
- same
- within and same
- sequence
- sequence
- text
- Using the atomselect command
- update
- Finding waters near a
- within
- within and same
 
 
- atoms
- 
- distance between
- Comparing Two Structures
- 
- plotting
- Plotting a label's value
 
 
- atomselect
- 
- command
- Tcl Text Commands
 | animate
 | Molecular Analysis
 | Using the atomselect command
 
- axes
- Display Form
- command
- Tcl Text Commands
 | atomselect
- Python module
- axes
 
- Babel
- Babel interface
- beta values
- Root mean square deviation
- BioCoRE
- For more information on
- BMRT
- Higher Quality Rendering
- bonds
- 
- determining
- What happens when a
- label
- Label categories
- representation
- Rendering methods
 | Bonds
- resolution
- Bonds
- unusual
- What happens when a
 
- button bar
- Main Form
- callbacks
- 
- Python
- Python callbacks
- Tcl
- Tcl callbacks
 
- cartoon representation
- Rendering methods
 | Cartoon
- center of mass
- Using the atomselect command
- CHARMM
- 
- files
- Loading A Molecule
 | Reading Frames
 
- chemical2vmd
- Setting up your .mailcap
- clipping planes
- Display Form
- color
- 
- access definitions
- colorinfo
- assignment
- Comparing Two Structures
- background
- Color Form
- category
- Color Form
 | Color categories
 | Color categories
 | Coloring by color categories
 | colorinfo
 | Coloring Trick - Override
- command
- Coloring Methods
 | Tcl Text Commands
 | axes
- form
- Comparing Two Structures
 | Color Form
 | Coloring Methods
 | Color categories
 | Coloring by color categories
- id
- Image Controls
 | Coloring Methods
- in user-defined graphics
- Introduction
- index
- colorinfo
- map
- Color Form
- material properties
- Introduction
 | Introduction
- names
- Coloring Methods
 | colorinfo
- properties
- colorinfo
- Python module
- color
- redefinition
- Changing the RGB Value
 | Creating a set of
- revert to default
- Revert all RGB values
- scale
- Color Scale
 | Color scale
 | Color scale
 | color
 | Changing the color scale
- 
- changing
- Color Scale
 
 
- color map
- Color categories
- colorinfo
- 
- command
- Tcl Text Commands
 | colorinfo
 
- coloring
- 
- by category
- Coloring by color categories
- by color scale
- Color scale
 | Color scale
- by property
- Coloring Trick - Override
- methods
- Viewing a molecule: Myoglobin
 | Graphics Form
 | Molecular Drawing Methods
 | Coloring Methods
 | Coloring Methods
 | Coloring Methods
 | mol
 | mol
 | Coloring Trick - Override
 
- Command line options
- VMD Command-Line Options
- contact residues
- Finding contact residues
- copyright
- Copyright and Disclaimer
- CPK
- Rendering methods
 | CPK
- debug
- 
- command
- Tcl Text Commands
 
- depth cue
- Display Form
 | display
- depthsort
- display
- detail
- Display Form
 | display
- display
- 
- command
- Tcl Text Commands
 | colorinfo
- device
- VMD Command-Line Options
- form
- Display Form
- Python module
- display
- update
- display
 | display
 | Using the molinfo command
 | Creating a set of
 | Revert all RGB values
 
- distance between atoms
- Comparing Two Structures
- dotted van der Waals representation
- Rendering methods
 | Dotted
- draw
- 
- command
- Introduction
 | Draw and Drawing Extensions
- extensions
- Draw and Drawing Extensions
 
- drawing
- 
- box around molecule
- Drawing a box around
- method
- Viewing a molecule: Myoglobin
 | Graphics Form
 
- drawn
- The Molecule List browser
- echo
- 
- command
- Tcl Text Commands
 | display
 
- environment variables
- Environment Variables
- DISPLAY
- Environment Variables
- MSMSSERVER
- MSMS
- SURF_BIN
- Surf
- TCL_LIBRARY
- Core Script Files
- VMDBABELBIN
- Babel interface
 | Environment Variables
- VMDCAVEMEM
- Environment Variables
- VMDDIR
- Environment Variables
- VMDFILECHOOSER
- Environment Variables
- VMDGDISPLAY
- Environment Variables
- VMDHTMLVIEWER
- Environment Variables
- VMDIMAGEVIEWER
- Environment Variables
- VMDSCRDIST
- Environment Variables
- VMDSCRHEIGHT
- Environment Variables
- VMDSCRPOS
- Environment Variables
- VMDSCRSIZE
- Environment Variables
- VMDTMPDIR
- Babel interface
 | Environment Variables
 
- exit
- 
- command
- Tcl Text Commands
 
- eye separation
- Stereo Parameters
 | display
- file
- 
- load
- Viewing a molecule: Myoglobin
 
- file types
- 
- input
- Loading A Molecule
 | Reading Frames
- output
- Writing Frames
 
- files
- 
- output
- Rendering an Image
- read
- animate
- reading
- Viewing a molecule: Myoglobin
 | A Quick Animation
 | Loading A Molecule
 | Loading a New Molecule
 | Files Form
 | Reading Frames
 | mol
 | VMD Command-Line Options
- startup
- Hot Keys
 | VMD Command-Line Options
 | Startup Files
 | .vmdrc and vmd.rc Files
- writing
- Babel interface
 | Writing Frames
 | animate
 
- fit
- 
- RMSD
- RMS and scripting
 | RMSD Computation
 
- flat
- Display Form
- focal length
- Stereo Parameters
 | display
- form
- 
- animate
- A Quick Animation
 | Animate Form
- color
- Comparing Two Structures
 | Color Form
 | Coloring Methods
 | Color categories
 | Coloring by color categories
- display
- Mouse Modes
 | Display Form
- edit animation
- Edit Animation Form
- files
- Viewing a molecule: Myoglobin
 | Files Form
- graphics
- Viewing a molecule: Myoglobin
 | An Introduction to Atom
 | Graphics Form
- hot keys
- Hot Keys
- label
- Labels Form
- main
- Main Form
- material
- Material Form
- molecules
- Viewing a molecule: Myoglobin
 | A Quick Animation
 | Molecules (Mol) Form
- mouse
- Mouse Form
- RamaPlot
- RamaPlot
- render
- Rendering an Image
 | Render Form
- sequence
- Sequence Form
- sim
- Sim Form
- tracker
- Tracker Form
 
- forms
- menu
- frame
- 
- delete
- Deleting Frames
 | animate
- duplicate
- animate
- write
- animate
 
- frames
- The Molecule List browser
- full detail
- Display Form
- geometric center
- Using the atomselect command
- gopython
- 
- command
- Using the Python interpreter
 
- graphics
- 
- command
- Introduction
 | Graphics
- delete
- Graphics
- form
- Graphics Form
- loading
- Graphics
- primitives
- Introduction
- Python module
- graphics
- replace
- Graphics
- user-defined
- User-Defined Graphics
 
- Gromacs
- 
- files
- Loading A Molecule
 | Reading Frames
 
- gyration, radius of
- Radius of gyration
- hbonds representation
- Rendering methods
 | HBonds
- help
- Main Form
- command
- Tcl Text Commands
 | exit
- topics
- help
 
- highlight
- Selecting residues from the
- hot keys
- Hot Keys
 | user
- animation control
- Hot Keys
- customizing
- Hot Keys
- menu control
- Hot Keys
- mouse control
- Hot Keys
- rotation and scaling
- Hot Keys
 
- hydrogen bonds
- HBonds
- image
- 
- lighting controls
- Mouse Modes
 | Display Form
- ray tracing considerations
- Caveats
- shading and material properties
- Material Form
 
- IMD
- Interactive Molecular Dynamics
- command
- Tcl Text Commands
 | help
- Python module
- imd
- requirements
- Interactive Molecular Dynamics
 
- Interactive Molecular Dynamics
- Interactive Molecular Dynamics
- isosurface
- 
- representation
- Rendering methods
 | Isosurface
 
- JMV
- For more information on
- joystick
- 
- using
- Using the Joystick in
 
- label
- 
- command
- Tcl Text Commands
 | imd
- Python module
- label
 
- labels
- Comparing Two Structures
- categories
- Label categories
 | label
- delete
- Modifying or deleting a
- form
- Labels Form
- hide
- Modifying or deleting a
- picking with mouse
- Pick Item Mode
- plotting
- Plotting a label's value
- show
- Modifying or deleting a
- text
- Adding a label
 
- licorice representation
- Rendering methods
 | Licorice
- light
- 
- command
- Tcl Text Commands
 | label
- controlling with mouse
- Mouse Modes
- toggle
- Display Form
 
- line width
- Image Controls
- lines representation
- Rendering methods
 | Lines
- logfile
- 
- command
- Tcl Text Commands
 | logfile
 
- logging tcl commands
- echo
 | logfile
- mass
- 
- center of
- Using the atomselect command
- of residue atoms
- Tcl callbacks
- total
- Total mass of a
 
- material
- 
- changing
- mol
- command
- Tcl Text Commands
 | logfile
- Python module
- material
 
- material properties
- Introduction
 | Introduction
- materials
- Image Controls
- matrix routine
- Matrix routines
- trans
- Matrix routines
- transaxis
- Matrix routines
- transidentity
- Matrix routines
- transmult
- Matrix routines
- transoffset
- Matrix routines
- transtranspose
- Matrix routines
- transvec
- Matrix routines
- transvecinv
- Matrix routines
 
- MDTools
- For more information on
- measure
- 
- command
- Tcl Text Commands
 | material
 | Analysis scripts
 | Coordinate min and max
 
- menu
- 
- command
- Tcl Text Commands
 | measure
- vs forms
- Rapid Introduction to VMD
 
- molecular surface
- Rendering methods
 | Surf
 | MSMS
- molecule
- 
- active
- The Molecule List browser
 | Animate Form
- analysis
- Analysis scripts
- best-fit alignment
- Computing the Alignment
- canceling
- Canceling a Load of
- command
- Tcl Text Commands
 | menu
 | mol
- data
- molinfo
- deleting
- Deleting a Molecule
- drawn
- The Molecule List browser
- fixed
- Comparing Two Structures
 | The Molecule List browser
- graphics
- Graphics
- id
- mol
 | Graphics
- index
- mol
- info
- Molecular Analysis
- list
- The Molecule List browser
- loading
- Viewing a molecule: Myoglobin
 | A Quick Animation
 | Loading a New Molecule
 | Graphics
 | Root mean square deviation
- Python module
- molecule
- status
- The Molecule List browser
 | mol
- 
- changing
- Changing the Molecule's Status
 | mol
 | Using the molinfo command
 
- top
- The Molecule List browser
 | Jumping to Specific Frames
 | molinfo
- translation
- Comparing Two Structures
 
- molinfo
- 
- command
- molecule
 | Molecular Analysis
- keywords
- molinfo
 
- molrep
- 
- Python module
- molrep
 
- mouse
- 
- action buttons
- Action buttons
- command
- Tcl Text Commands
 | molinfo
- modes
- Viewing a molecule: Myoglobin
 | Comparing Two Structures
 | Mouse Modes
 | Hot Keys
 | mouse
- mouse mode
- Mouse mode
- move
- Object menus
- 
- atom
- Object menus
- fragment
- Object menus
- highlighted rep
- Object menus
- molecule
- Object menus
- residue
- Object menus
 
- object menus
- Object menus
- pick information
- Pick information
- using
- Using the Mouse in
 
- movies
- Making a Movie
- MSMS
- 
- representation
- Rendering methods
 | MSMS
 
- NAMD
- For more information on
- files
- Loading A Molecule
 | Reading Frames
 
- orthographic view
- Display Form
 | Perspective/Orthographic views
- output
- 
- format
- Rendering an Image
 
- pcre
- Copyright and Disclaimer
- perspective view
- Display Form
 | Perspective/Orthographic views
- picking
- 
- angles
- Pick Item Mode
 | Pick Item Mode
- atoms
- Comparing Two Structures
 | Pick Item Mode
 | Pick Item Mode
 | Pick Item Mode
- bonds
- Comparing Two Structures
 | Pick Item Mode
 | Pick Item Mode
- center
- Pick Item Mode
- dihedrals
- Pick Item Mode
 | Pick Item Mode
- distances
- Comparing Two Structures
- hot keys
- Hot Keys
- modes
- Comparing Two Structures
 | Pick Item Mode
- move atom
- Pick Item Mode
- move fragment
- Pick Item Mode
- move highlighted rep
- Pick Item Mode
- move molecule
- Pick Item Mode
- move residue
- Pick Item Mode
- query
- Pick Item Mode
- text command
- mouse
- tracing variables
- Interface to picking
 
- play
- 
- command
- Making a Movie
 | Using text commands
 | Tcl Text Commands
 | mouse
 | VMD Command-Line Options
 
- plot
- 
- data with graphics
- Drawing a graph
- geometry monitors
- Plotting a label's value
 
- points
- 
- detail
- Display Form
- representation
- Rendering methods
 | Points
 
- postscript
- Higher Quality Rendering
 | One Step Printing
- Pov-Ray
- Higher Quality Rendering
- Python
- Copyright and Disclaimer
- interface
- Python Text Interface
- Tkinter
- Using Tkinter menus in
 
- quit
- Main Form
- command
- echo
 | play
 
- quoting
- Quoting with Single Quotes
- Radiance
- Higher Quality Rendering
- radius
- 
- of gyration
- Radius of gyration
 
- Ramachandran plot
- RamaPlot
- raster image creation
- Rendering to Raster Image
- Raster3D
- Rendering an Image
 | Raster3D file format
 | Rendering
 | Higher Quality Rendering
 | One Step Printing
 | Making a Movie
 | Making Stereo Raster Images
 | render
- RayShade
- Higher Quality Rendering
- regular expression
- Double Quotes and Regular
 | Double Quotes and Regular
- X-PLOR conversion
- Double Quotes and Regular
 
- remote
- 
- connection
- imd
- 
- detaching
- Using the Sim form
- killing
- Using the Sim form
- modifiable parameters
- Using the Sim form
 
- options
- imd
- simulation control
- imd
 
- render
- 
- command
- Tcl Text Commands
 | quit
- form
- Rendering an Image
 | Render Form
- Python module
- render
 
- rendering
- Rendering an Image
 | Render Form
 | Rendering
 | Rendering to Raster Image
- caveats
- Caveats
 | Known Problems
- exec command
- render
- in background process
- Rendering
- method
- Higher Quality Rendering
 | render
- stereo
- Making Stereo Raster Images
 
- Renderman
- Higher Quality Rendering
- representation
- Graphics Form
 | Molecular Drawing Methods
 | mol
- add new
- Graphics Form
- changing
- An Introduction to Atom
 | Graphics Form
 | Changing Views
 | mol
- deleting
- Graphics Form
- examples
- Some Nice Represenations
- off
- Off
- style
- Viewing a molecule: Myoglobin
 | Graphics Form
 | Molecular Drawing Methods
 | Rendering methods
 | mol
- 
- options
- Image Controls
 
 
- reset view
- display
- resolution
- 
- cylinder
- Image Controls
- level
- Display Form
 | display
- sphere
- Image Controls
 
- restore
- 
- viewpoint
- Using the molinfo command
- vmd state
- Saving your work
 
- ribbon representation
- Rendering methods
 | Ribbon
- RMS
- 
- Fit
- RMS Fit and Alignment
 
- RMS:Alignment
- RMS Fit and Alignment
- RMSD
- Root mean square deviation
 | RMS and scripting
 | RMSD Computation
 | A simulation example script
- rock
- Looping Styles
- command
- Tcl Text Commands
 | render
 
- rotate
- 
- command
- Tcl Text Commands
 | rock
- side chain
- Using the atomselect command
 
- rotation
- 
- continuous
- Mouse Modes
- hot keys
- Hot Keys
- stop
- Mouse Modes
- transformation matrix
- Matrix routines
 | Matrix routines
- using mouse
- Mouse Modes
 
- save
- 
- configuration
- Saving your work
- viewpoint
- Using the molinfo command
- vmd state
- Saving your work
 
- scale
- 
- command
- Tcl Text Commands
 | rotate
 
- scaling
- 
- using mouse
- Mouse Modes
 
- screen parameters
- Display Form
 | Known Problems
- scripts
- 
- play
- Using text commands
- source
- Using text commands
 
- selection
- Viewing a molecule: Myoglobin
 | An Introduction to Atom
 | Graphics Form
 | Molecular Drawing Methods
 | atomselect
 | mol
 | Using the atomselect command
- comparison
- Comparison selections
- keywords
- Atom Name Lists
 | Selection Methods
 | Definition of Keywords and
- 
- boolean
- Boolean Keywords
 
- logic
- Short Circuiting
- math functions
- Definition of Keywords and
- modes
- Selection Methods
- text
- Using the atomselect command
 
- sensor configuration file
- Supported devices and how
- sensors
- Supported devices and how
- sequence
- Sequence information
- caveats
- Caveats
- dna
- Caveats
- form
- Sequence Form
- zooming
- Sequence Zooming
 
- short circuit logic
- Short Circuiting
 | within and same
- sleep
- 
- command
- Tcl Text Commands
 | wait
 
- solvent accessible surface
- Rendering methods
 | Solvent
- solvent representation
- Rendering methods
 | Solvent
- source
- 
- command
- Using text commands
 
- spaceball
- 
- driver
- Spaceball Driver
- 
- unix
- Spaceball Driver
- windows
- Spaceball Driver
 
- modes
- Spaceball Driver
- using
- Using the Spaceball in
 
- stage
- Display Form
- command
- Tcl Text Commands
 | scale
 
- startup files
- Hot Keys
 | VMD Command-Line Options
 | Startup Files
 | .vmdrc and vmd.rc Files
- stereo
- 
- mode
- Stereoscopic Modes
- off
- Monoscopic Modes
- parameters
- Display Form
 | Stereo Parameters
 | display
 | display
- problems
- Problems with stereo on
 
- stride
- Copyright and Disclaimer
- Structural Biology Software Database
- For more information on
- surf
- Copyright and Disclaimer
- representation
- Rendering methods
 | Surf
 
- surface
- 
- molecular
- Rendering methods
 | Solvent
- solvent accessible
- Rendering methods
 | Solvent
 
- surface plot
- Draw a surface plot
- Tachyon
- Copyright and Disclaimer
 | Rendering
 | Higher Quality Rendering
 | render
- Tcl
- Tcl/Tk
- tcl commands
- Tcl Text Commands
- text
- 
- displayed
- Introduction
 
- Tk
- Tcl/Tk
- tool
- 
- command
- Tcl Text Commands
 | stage
 
- tools
- Using devices with VMD
- topology files
- Loading A Molecule
- trace
- 
- variables
- Interface to picking
 
- trace representation
- Rendering methods
 | Trace
- tracker
- 
- form
- Tracker Form
 
- trajectory
- 
- files
- Loading A Molecule
- read
- Reading Frames
 | VMD Command-Line Options
- write
- Writing Frames
 
- trans
- 
- Python module
- trans
 
- transformation matrix
- Matrix routines
- align
- Matrix routines
- centering
- Matrix routines
- identity
- Matrix routines
- offset
- Matrix routines
 | Matrix routines
- rotation
- Matrix routines
 | Matrix routines
 
- translate
- 
- command
- Tcl Text Commands
 | tool
 
- translation
- 
- change atom coordinates
- Using the atomselect command
- transformation matrix
- Matrix routines
- using mouse
- Mouse Modes
 
- transparency
- Image Controls
- tube representation
- Rendering methods
 | Tube
- universal sensor locator
- Supported devices and how
- url_get
- Copyright and Disclaimer
- user
- 
- command
- Tcl Text Commands
 | translate
 
- user interfaces
- 
- python
- Python Text Interface
- text
- Tcl Text Interface
 
- USL
- Supported devices and how
- van der Waals representation
- Rendering methods
 | VDW
- variables
- 
- env
- Environment Variables
 | Core Script Files
- M_PI
- Misc. functions and values
- trace
- Tcl callbacks
- vmd_pick_atom
- Interface to picking
- vmd_pick_mol
- Interface to picking
 
- vector command
- 
- coordtrans
- Multiplying vectors and matrices
- vecadd
- Vectors
- veccross
- Vectors
- vecdist
- Vectors
- vecdot
- Vectors
- vecinvert
- Vectors
- veclength
- Vectors
- veclength2
- Vectors
- vecnorm
- Vectors
- vecscale
- Vectors
- vecsub
- Vectors
- vectrans
- Multiplying vectors and matrices
- veczero
- Vectors
 
- vector routines
- Vectors and Matrices
- view
- Graphics Form
 | Molecular Drawing Methods
 | mol
- adding
- Graphics Form
- deleting
- Graphics Form
 
- viewing modes
- 
- changing
- Viewing Modes
 
- VMD
- For more information on
- as MIME helper application
- MIME types
- command line options
- VMD Command-Line Options
- compile options
- vmdinfo
- copyright
- Copyright and Disclaimer
- customizing
- Hot Keys
 | Customizing VMD Sessions
 
- vmd.rc
- Using text commands
- vmdinfo
- 
- command
- Tcl Text Commands
 | user
 
- volumeslice
- 
- representation
- Rendering methods
 | VolumeSlice
 
- volumetric data
- Rendering methods
 | VolumeSlice
 | Isosurface
- VRML
- Higher Quality Rendering
- wait
- 
- command
- Tcl Text Commands
 | vmdinfo
 
- wireframe
- Display Form
 | Lines
- XPLOR
- 
- files
- Loading A Molecule
 | Reading Frames
 
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