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VIDA is a graphical interface designed from the ground-up to visualize, manage and manipulate large sets of molecular information. It supports all standard visualization paradigms, including 2D depiction, both hardware and software stereo, surface selection and manipulation, and many other unique facilities. VIDA reads and writes a wide range of formats. VIDA also interfaces to OpenEyes other modeling software for analysis of generated data.

 

Visual inspection of the interactions of a ligand, NAPAP, in the active site of a protein, thrombin. Select image to enlarge.

The primary features of VIDA include:

• A simple and intuitive interface
• Robust and powerful list manager
• Chemically-oriented, fully functional spreadsheet
• Automatic browsing facilities (slide show)
• List operations
• Hardware 3D-stereo-in-a-window
• Integrated Python interpreter
• Support for most industry standard file formats
• Surface selection/sub-setting, real-time contours
• Concurrent interaction between data in spreadsheet, 3D display and graphs
• 2D, atoms, bonds, surfaces, contours, backbones, electrostatic grids, electron density maps
• Multi-level undo
• Easily save and restore a session
• Compact internal representations
• Simple interfaces to FRED, ROCS, and EON results
• Supported on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X (PPC and Intel), and IRIX systems