Using VMD: An introductory tutorial

Current Protocols in Bioinformatics

Volumn , Issue SUPPL. 24, 2008, Pages

  Hsin, Jen ^a,b   Arkhipov, Anton ^a,b   Yin, Ying ^a,b   Stone, John E ^b   Schulten, Klaus ^a,b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Animation; Interactive visualization; Molecular dynamics visualization; Molecular modeling

Indexed keywords

AQUAPORIN; NUCLEIC ACID;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; DISPLAY SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION STORAGE; INTERNET; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STRUCTURAL BIOINFORMATICS; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WEB BROWSER;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERNET; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 58849088534     PISSN: 19343396     EISSN: 1934340X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/0471250953.bi0507s24     Document Type: Review

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