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Introduction

VMD is a molecular graphics and visualization program designed to be used for interactive display of molecular systems, particularly biopolymers such as proteins, nucleic acids, and biological assemblies such as membrane lipid bilayers. VMD has several goals:

This manual, along with the Users Guide and Installation Guide, document the use of VMD.

A major intention of this manual is that it be kept up-to-date with all changes to VMD. As features are changed, these changes should be reflected in the description here, and as new capabilities are added these new features should be added to the relevant section in this document. In particular, when new object classes are added or when existing ones are changed or augmented, the description of the relevant class should be updated in the `Program Structure' and `Class Descriptions' chapters. In this way, other uses can also benefit from new additions. This is a major goal for VMD, to become a useful, common resource for all users in the field of computational structural biology.



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