VMD

Category(ies): Computational Chemistry/Visualization

Version: 1.8.4

Author / Distributor: The authors request that all published work which utilizes VMD include the primary VMD citation at a minimum:

Humphrey, W., Dalke, A. and Schulten, K., "VMD - Visual Molecular Dynamics", J. Molec. Graphics, 1996, vol. 14, pp. 33-38.

Electronic documents shall include a direct link to the official VMD page: http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/

The above link also provides a list of other relevant references.

Description:

VMD is a molecular visualization program for displaying, animating, and analyzing large biomolecular systems using 3-D graphics and built-in scripting.

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rcluster,IOB: Running Program | Documentation | Installation | System

Running Program:

To run vmd interactively, on a shell command prompt type:

rcluster> vmd &

If you are planning to run vmd interactively for more than 10 minutes, please run it on an interactive node instead of the rcluster headnode.

For proper visualization, your desktop needs to have an appropriate graphics card.

Documentation:

See http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/

Installation:

Installed in /usr/local/vmd/
There is a symbolic link to the vmd binary in /usr/local/bin, a directory that is on users path.

System: 64-bit Linux