Visual molecular dynamics (VMD) is a molecular modelling and visualizationcomputer program. VMD is primarily developed as a tool for viewing and analyzing the results of molecular dynamics simulations, but 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, VRML, and many others. Users can run their own Tcl and Python scripts within VMD as it includes embedded Tcl and Python interpreters. Image File history File links Thumbnail of VMD 1. ... Molecular modelling is a collection of techniques to model or mimic the behaviour of molecules. ... Visualization can refer to: Graphic Visualization as in any technique for creating images, diagrams, or animations to communicate any message. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... The Utah teapot, rendered in POV-Ray. ... RenderMan is the name of a rendering software package developed by Pixar Animation Studios; it implements Pixars photorealistic 3D description standard, the RenderMan Interface Specification. ... VRML - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Tcl (originally from Tool Command Language, but nonetheless conventionally rendered as Tcl rather than TCL; and pronounced like tickle) is a scripting language created by John Ousterhout that is generally thought to be easy to learn, but powerful in the right hands. ... Python is an interpreted, interactive programming language created by Guido van Rossum in 1990. ...
History
VMD has been developed by the Theoretical and Computational Biophysics group at the University of Illinois and the Beckman Institute. The original version, called VRChem, was developed in 1992 by M. Krogh, W. Humphrey, and R. Kufrin. The initial version of VMD was written by Andrew Dalke, Jeff Ulrich, and William Humphrey and and was released in 1995. The earliest versions of VMD were developed for Silicon Graphics workstations and could also run in the CAVE. After the original VMD developers moved on to other careers. Sergei Izrailev took over maintaining the program until 1998. In 1998, John Stone began porting VMD to many other Unix operating systems and completed the first versions that used OpenGL.
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VMD is primarily developed as a tool for viewing and analyzing the results of moleculardynamics simulations, but it also includes tools for working with volumetric data, sequence data, and arbitrary graphics objects.
VMD has been developed by the Theoretical and Computational Biophysics group at the University of Illinois and the Beckman Institute.
The initial version of VMD was written by Andrew Dalke, Jeff Ulrich, and William Humphrey and was released in 1995.
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