VMD 1.8.4 review

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

License: Freeware OS: Mac OS X File size: 0K Developer: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Price: $0.00 Updated: 18 Apr 2006

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VMD is a molecular visualization program for displaying, animating, and analyzing large biomolecular systems using 3-D graphics and built-in scripting. VMD supports computers running Mac OS X, UNIX, or Windows, is distributed free of charge, and includes source code.

VMD is a molecular graphics program designed for the interactive visualization and analysis of biopolymers such as proteins, nucleic acids, lipids, and membranes.

VMD is a general application for displaying molecules containing any number of atoms and is similar to other molecular visualization programs in its basic capabilities.

VMD includes built-in support for high-end quad-buffered stereoscopic rendering which can be used in projection theatres as well as desktop graphics workstations. Sterescopic display aids significantly in the perception of three dimensional structures and has been a key feature in VMD since its first release. VMD also provides support for inexpensive game-oriented stereo glasses, and even anaglyphic (Red/Blue) stereo.

What's New:
This is the first version ported to Mac OS X on Intel x86 processors, Linux on Intel Itanium processors, and AIX 5.x on 32-bit and 64-bit POWER processors.
Structure building, modeling, simulation setup, and analysis tasks are made easier with the introduction of the new plugins, which automate common modeling tasks.
This release has core enhancements including support for selecting and displaying files containing multiple conformations, improved atomic mass and radius guessing, and improved handling of non-biological structures containing hundreds of thousands of atoms.