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VMD light harvesting movie

The 1.9.2 release of VMD promises more insight and more beauty from use of an already powerful molecular visualization and analysis program. For more insight, VMD 1.9.2 exploits the power of parallel computers small and large to reduce analysis runtimes tremendously, as reported here, and here. VMD 1.9.2 strengthens collaboration between experimental and computational biologists in resolving atom-by-atom structure and dynamics of huge molecular assemblies arising in living cells by guiding interactively a match of computational model to experimental data, as reported here; this is achieved through quality-of-fit cross correlation to be computed rapidly using GPUs, the fastest means of modern calculation. Many new and updated tools, called plugins, developed by the VMD user community, are included in VMD 1.9.2, including force field parameterization, helix analysis, and normal mode plugins. VMD 1.9.2 incorporates a new remote control and works with Android phones and tablets. For more beauty, VMD 1.9.2 adds stunning interactive graphics on laptops. Such high quality graphics was previously available only on the most advanced computers, through powerful GPU-accelerated interactive ray tracing. Interactive ray tracing makes the task of getting a molecular image "just right" much easier than ever before; it also enables rendering of spectacular movies, turning scientists into great film directors. More details about VMD 1.9.2 features can be found here. See the light harvesting movie produced with VMD 1.9.2 here.