VMD is part of a suite of tools developed by the Theoretical Biophysics group at the University of Illinois.
BioCoRE currently provides tools in three toolboxes. The Workbench toolbox provides access to structural biology applications such as simulation and visualization programs. The Notebook toolbox supplies a message board where users store project notes. The Conferences toolbox allows interactive text-based chats, which are also archived to the message board for future reference. Soon, the Documents toolbox will provide tools to assist in joint preparation of publications.
BioCoRE is currently accessible to users through the BioCoRE server at UIUC, and a code release is planned which will allow sites to run their own servers. Because BioCoRE is web-based, updates and new features are automatically available every time the user logs in. More information is available at the BioCoRE home page
For more on any of the individual software efforts, BioCoRE, MDTools, NAMD, or VMD, see the Theoretical Biophysics Group WWW home page.