VMD  


1.Platform, price, and supplier/creator

o        Windows, Unix, Mac OS

o        Freeware

o        University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/

2.Applications

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

o        It is primarily developed for viewing and analyzing the results of molecular dynamics simulations, but also for working with volumetric data, sequence data, and arbitrary graphics objects

3.Web Resources

o        Official website:   http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/

o        Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_molecular_dynamics