About
VTX is a free molecular visualization software developed at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers by:
- 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.
Documentation
The VTX documentation is available here.
The legacy tutorial for VTX 0.x.x is still available as a PDF.
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Last version: 0.4.5 (January 7 2026)
Requires graphics drivers supporting opengl 4.5. Large molecular systems may require a dedicated graphics card.
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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