The Society is a registered charity and non-profit making organisation, established in 1981. The current membership is approximately 500. Members come from a wide variety of disciplines and geographical spread including most of the European countries, North America, Japan and Australia. These regional chapters and the UK committee of the Society each organise smaller meetings which are focussed on one particular aspect of molecular modelling. In the UK there are about three meetings a year.
All meetings are open to all members.
Members enjoy a reduced subscription fee to all meetings of the society. The charitable status of the Society means that membership is inland revenue accredited and thus can be offset against tax. Meetings deal with computational aspects of drug and pesticide design, protein and nucleic acid structure, molecular mechanics and dynamics research, applications of quantum mechanics and advances in all aspects of computational hardware and computer graphics. An important aspect of selected meetings is the chance to see some of the latest commercially available hardware and software at the associated exhibition. In conjunction with Elsevier, the Society publishes the Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling which incorporates a newsletter, CDA News.