VMD plugins#

This file:

  • Provides links to additional plugins that may be useful.

Keywords: VMD, VMD Plugins, visualization, atomistic simulations

Associated material:

VMD 1UBQ

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.

povray can be used to produce very high-quality graphics. It can be used directly from VMD provided povray is installed/included in your $PATH.

Installation:

sudo apt install povray

brew install povray

Download the binary from the povray website.

More:

VMD plugins from VMD Home#

Visualizing MARTINI systems#

Andriy Anishkin’s VMD scripts#

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-tools and autogrid. 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#

CoMD#

VMDIce#

  • Computes RMSD, RMSF and Solvent Accessible Surface Area

MultiMSMS#

Home page

Clustering tool#

FTProd#

DelEnsembleElec#

Lipid Builder#

Plumed-GUI#

Diffusion coefficient tool#

Thermodynamic and kinetic models from MD data#

Density profile tool#