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VMD 1.9.3 Documentation

  • Quick Help
  • FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
  • VMD-L Mailing List Archive
  • VMD reference manuals and programming documentation

    • VMD 1.9.3 Release Notes
      • Main README Release Notes
      • Notes on CUDA acceleration in VMD
      • Notes on Intel Xeon Phi AVX-512 versions of VMD
      • Windows Release Notes
      • Linux Release Notes
      • MacOS X Release Notes
      • Known bugs and workarounds

    • VMD Installation Guide: (Online HTML)
      PDF ( 79K)
      Tar/gzip HTML ( 12K)

    • VMD User's Guide: (Online HTML)
      PDF (1.9M)
      Tar/gzip HTML (874K)
      User's Guide Tutorial Molecules(445K)

    • VMD Plugin Documentation (Online HTML)

    • VMD Programmer's Guide (Online HTML, updated nightly)

  • VMD tutorials developed by the NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics, UIUC
    • Using VMD (Online HTML)
      PDF ( 18M)
      Browse Required Tutorial Files
      All Tutorial Files ( 47M)
    • VMD mini-tutorials resulting from frequently asked questions (Online HTML)
    • QwikMD Tutorial
      PDF (1.4M)
      Browse Required Tutorial Files
      All Tutorial Files (1.0G)
    • VMD Images and Movies (Online HTML)
      PDF ( 26M)
      Browse Required Tutorial Files
      All Tutorial Files ( 88M)
    • MultiSeq plugin: Evolution of Biomolecular Structure, School of Chemical Sciences, UIUC
    • Complete list of locally developed tutorials and scientific case studies

  • VMD tutorials maintained at other sites:
    • Using VMD with AMBER, Ross Walker, The Scripps Research Institute
    • DNA polyA-PolyT Decamer (AMBER tutorial with VMD visualization examples), Ross Walker, The Scripps Research Institute
    • APBS Tutorial (VMD visualization examples), Nathan Baker, Washington University in St. Louis
    • Poisson Boltzmann Tutotial: Using APBS for implicit solvent calculations (VMD visualization examples), Center for Theoretical Biological Physics at UCSD
    • Visualization and Analysis of Quantum Chemical and Molecular Dynamics Data with VMD, by Axel Kohlmeyer, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Germany
    • Explicit Membrane Protein Simulations in NAMD/VMD, by Richard Law of the McCammon group, UCSD
    • Biomolecules: Databanks, Visualization and Computations, by by Peter Schellenberg, Univ. of Minho, Braga, Portugal
    • Using VMD to visualize EM maps docked with SITUS, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston
    • A short guide to the Visualization of Membrane Protein systems, by Alfredo Freites, UC Irvine
    • Introduction to Molecular Dynamics (VMD visualization examples), by the Molecular Dynamics Group, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
    • VASP plugins for VMD, by Sung Sakong, Dept. of Theoretical Chemistry, University of Ulm, Germany

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