Visual Molecular Dynamics

VMD
Original author(s)William Humphrey, Andrew Dalke, Klaus Schulten, John Stone
Developer(s)University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Initial releaseJuly 4, 1995; 29 years ago (1995-07-04)
Stable release
1.9.4 alpha 55 / October 2021; 3 years ago (2021-10)
Written inC
Operating systemmacOS, Unix, Windows
Available inEnglish
TypeMolecular modelling
LicenseDistribution-specific[1]
Websitewww.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd
VMD visualization of a 1-billion atom aerosolized SARS-CoV-2 virion, rendered with Tachyon on a workstation with 1TB RAM.

Visual Molecular Dynamics (VMD) is a molecular modelling and visualization computer program.[2] VMD is developed mainly as a tool to view and analyze the results of molecular dynamics simulations. It also includes tools for working with volumetric data, sequence data, and arbitrary graphics objects. Molecular scenes can be exported to external rendering tools such as POV-Ray, RenderMan, Tachyon, Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML), and many others. Users can run their own Tcl and Python scripts within VMD as it includes embedded Tcl and Python interpreters. VMD runs on Unix, Apple Mac macOS, and Microsoft Windows.[3] VMD is available to non-commercial users under a distribution-specific license which permits both use of the program and modification of its source code, at no charge.[4]

  1. ^ VMD license
  2. ^ Humphrey, William; Dalke, Andrew; Schulten, Klaus (February 1996). "VMD: Visual molecular dynamics". Journal of Molecular Graphics. 14 (1): 33–38. doi:10.1016/0263-7855(96)00018-5. PMID 8744570.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference UserGuide was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "VMD License". Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group. NIH Center for Macromolecular Modeling & Bioinformatics, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Retrieved 4 January 2016.