VMD plugins¶
This file:
Provides links to additional plugins that may be useful.
Keywords: VMD, VMD Plugins, visualization, atomistic simulations
Associated material:
VMD installation
VMD selections
VMD documentation from the VMD Home Page
There are lots of plugins for various analyses and other tasks. Some of them are provided with the basic installation and many are provided by VMD other users. Below is a list of VMD plugins that may be useful depending on your needs.
Povray rendering¶
Povray stands for Persistence of vision. It can be easily installed in Linux, Mac or/and Windows 10.
povray can used to produce very high-quality graphics. It can be used directly from VMD provided povray is installed/included in your $PATH.
Installation:
More:
VMD plugins from VMD Home¶
List of VMD plugins from the VMD home page.
Visualizing MARTINI systems¶
VMD Store: More plugins¶
Biomolecular SIMulations Research Group at the University of Porto maintains a VMD plugin repository called VMD Store:
Note:
The Molecular docking plugin requires
autodock-toolsandautogrid. Autodock can be installed on Mac and Linux by downloading from the Autodoc web site or on Linux from command line using:the vmdMagazine plugin needs NAMD
sudo apt install autodock autodock-getdata autodock-test autodock-vina autogrid autogrid-test
Does not work under Mac Catalina
Memplugin¶
DruGUI¶
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Requires NAMD for simulations
CoMD¶
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COnformational energy landscapes
VMDIce¶
Computes RMSD, RMSF and Solvent Accessible Surface Area
Clustering tool¶
DelEnsembleElec¶
DelPhi Ensemble Electrostatics
Requires DelPhi