Visual Molecular Dynamics
| VMD | |
|---|---|
Screenshot of VMD 1.8.3. | |
| Original author(s) | William Humphrey, Andrew Dalke, Klaus Schulten, John Stone |
| Developer(s) | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign |
| Initial release | July 4, 1995 |
| Stable release | 1.9.3
/ 30 November 2016 |
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | macOS, Unix, Windows |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Molecular modelling |
| License | Distribution-specific |
| Website | www |
Visual Molecular Dynamics (VMD) is a molecular modelling and visualization computer program. 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. 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.