About
VTX is a free molecular visualization software developed at Sorbonne Université and Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers by:
- Laboratoire de Biologie Computationnelle Quantitative et Synthetique (CQSB)
- Laboratoire de Genomique, Bioinformatique, et Chimie Moleculaire (GBCM)
- Laboratoire XLIM, Université de Limoges
- Laboratoire de Chimie Théorique, Sorbonne Université
- Centre d'Etudes et de Recherche en Informatique et Communications (CEDRIC)
This software is part of a project that has received funding from the European Research Council
(ERC) under the European
Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement n° 640283 and from the ERC
under the
Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement n° 101069190.
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Source code and binaries are available on the GitHub repository.
Latest version: 2026.6.2
Requires graphics drivers supporting opengl 4.6. Large molecular systems may require a dedicated graphics card.
Legacy version: 0.4.5
Cite us
If you happen to use VTX in your published work, please cite :
- Maxime Maria, Simon Guionnière, Nicolas Dacquay, Cyprien Plateau–Holleville, Valentin Guillaume, Vincent Larroque, Jean Lardé, Yassine Naimi, Jean-Philip Piquemal, Guillaume Levieux, Nathalie Lagarde, Stéphane Mérillou, Matthieu Montes, VTX: Real-time high-performance molecular structure and dynamics visualization software, Bioinformatics, 2025; btaf295, https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btaf295
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