VMD (Visual Molecular Dynamics) is designed for the visualization and analysis of biological systems such as proteins, nucleic acids, lipid bilayer assemblies, etc. It may be used to view more general molecules, as VMD can read standard Protein Data Bank (PDB) files and display the contained structure. VMD provides a wide variety of methods for rendering and coloring a molecule: simple points and lines, CPK spheres and cylinders, licorice bonds, backbone tubes and ribbons, cartoon drawings, and others. VMD can be used to animate and analyze the trajectory of a molecular dynamics (MD) simulation. In particular, VMD can act as a graphical front end for an external MD program by displaying and animating a molecule undergoing simulation on a remote computer. The VMD freeware is ready to run on linux, SGI, and Windows. The VMD source code is open.
open in new windowVisual Molecular Dynamics program Website.
Last update: | 1 Aug 2009, Version 1.8.7 | |
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Platforms: | Windows, Mac OSX, Unix, Linux | |
Charge: | free | |
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Development: | The Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group (TCBG), an NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics, Beckman Institute of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) |