VMD is a molecular visualization program for displaying, animating, and analyzing large biomolecular systems using 3-D graphics and built-in scripting.
All managed Linux workstations, some of the compute clusters, managed Windows workstations via WPKG.
Linux
VMD is provided via the environment module system. Run module load vmd to load the latest available version, or module av vmd to see all available versions. Once you have loaded a suitable module you can run the vmd command,
Windows
VMD needs to be assigned for installation via WPKG. Once installed, it will appear in the Start menu.
The full licence may be found at http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/current/LICENSE.html. The software installed in the Theory sector may be freely used for academic and research purposes. A binary-only version is currently installed.
The licence includes the following:
The user agrees that any reports or published results obtained with the Software will acknowledge its use by the appropriate citation as follows: "VMD was developed by the Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group in the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign." Any published work which utilizes VMD shall include the following reference: "Humphrey, W., Dalke, A. and Schulten, K., `VMD -Visual Molecular Dynamics', J. Molecular Graphics, 1996, vol. 14, pp. 33-38."
There is PDF documentation supplied with the program. It is in /usr/local/shared/vmd/1.9.3/64/lib/doc/ug.pdf on the managed Linux workstations. There is also a lot of documentation on the website, which can be accessed from the Help menu in VMD.
Binary-only versions installed because a very large amount of supporting software was needed to compile the source. The authors recommend the binary version.
Different versions have bugs, and different people prefer different bugs, hence we keep a few different versions around.
