Operating systems: Windows, MacOS and Linux.

Contacts : Nuno Sousa Cerqueira Pedro A. Fernandes Maria João Ramos

Citation :

CompASM: an Amber-VMD alanine scanning mutagenesis plug-in.
J. Ribeiro, N. M. F. S. A. Cerqueira, I. S. Moreira, P. A. Fernandes AND M. J. Ramos
Theoretical Chemistry Accounts, 2012, 131:1271 10.1007/s00214-012-1271-2

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In order to run the compASM plug-in, the Visual Molecular dynamics software (VMD) must be installed. It can be found at http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/ .

The compASM plug-in runs in any platform where VMD runs, i.e., Windows, OSX and LINUX.

1. Install the VMD software ( if you haven't yet installed).
2. Extract vmdMagazine.zip file to a directory in the disk.
3. Once unpacked, we need to let VMD know of this location. To do so, edit your VMD start-up file and add the biopathfinder plugin directory to the auto_path variable (see below).
4. Once this procedure is complete the BioPathFinder plugin can be found at the VMD extensions menu (CompBioComp»vmdMagazine).