VMD 1.8.3 Documentation

Online Documentation

• Quick Help
• FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
• VMD-L Mailing List Archive

• VMD 1.8.3 Release Notes
  • All-Platform README Release Notes
  • Windows Release Notes
  • Linux Release Notes
  • MacOS X Release Notes
  • Video boards and 3-D accelerators we've tested
  • Known VMD bugs and workarounds

• VMD User's Guide:
  Online HTML
  PDF (1.6M)
  PostScript (8.0M)
  Tar/gzip HTML (502K)
  User's Guide Tutorial Molecules(445K)

  VMD Plugin Documentation:

  • Main VMD Plugin Documentation Page

  VMD Tutorials:

  • Full list of molecular modeling and visualization tutorials produced by the Resource
  • VMD Molecular Graphics, tutorial developed by the NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics, UIUC
    Online HTML
    PDF ( 18M)
    Required Tutorial Files
    All Tutorial Files ( 47M)

    Using VMD with AMBER, tutorial at the Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center

    Using VMD with Situs, tutorial at University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston

    Visualization and Analysis of Quantum Chemical and Molecular Dynamics Data with VMD, tutorial at the Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Germany

    Explicit Membrane Protein Simulations in NAMD/VMD, tutorial by Richard Law of the McCammon group, UCSD

    Visualizing Molecules with VMD, tutorial at The Scripps Research Institute

  VMD Installation Guide:

  Online HTML

  PDF (116K)

  PostScript (172K)

  Tar/gzip HTML ( 11K)

  VMD Programmer's Guide:

  Nightly updated source code documentation (Doxygen)