VMD on Setonix Remote Visualisation

VMD is a molecular visualisation program for displaying, animating, and analysing large biomolecular systems using 3-D graphics and built-in scripting.  It may be used to view more general molecules, as VMD can read standard Protein Data Bank (PDB) files and display the contained structure. VMD provides a wide variety of methods for rendering and colouring a molecule. VMD can be used to animate and analyse the trajectory of a molecular dynamics (MD) simulation.

Launching VMD on Setonix Remote Visualisation

First, start a remote desktop session and launch a terminal. For details on how to do this, see Getting Started With Setonix Remote Visualisation.

Then, run the following commands to launch VMD:

module load virtualgl/3.1 vmd/1.9.3
vglrun vmd

After executing these commands, the VMD application windows will open: