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VMD (Visual Molecular Dynamics)

1.8a21

Molecular Modeling; Molecular Visualization

VMD Team,
Theoretical Biophysics Group 
Beckman Institute
University of Illinois 

VMD is a molecular visualization program for displaying and
animating large biomolecular systems using 3-D graphics. VMD
supports computers running Unix or Windows, is distributed free
of charge, and includes source code.

VMD 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.

The authors request that any published work which utilizes VMD
include the following reference:
  Humphrey, W., Dalke, A. and Schulten, K., "VMD - Visual Molecular
  Dynamics" J. Molec. Graphics 1996, 14.1, 33-38.

SGI

/usr/local/fbscapp/vmd-1.8a21/

Account on ABCC's SGI systems is required.
When using C-shell:
 set path = (/usr/local/fbscapp/vmd-1.8a21/bin/ $path)
 vmd    

User-Guide:
 /usr/local/fbscapp/vmd-1.8a21/doc/ug.pdf

VMD Help:
 /usr/local/fbscapp/vmd-1.8a21/doc/vmd_help.html

Sarangan Ravichandran
301-8461991
sravi@ncifcrf.gov 

miaskiew

2002-05-29

ravichas

2002-09-10