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| === | The following is a sortable list (to change sort criteria click on the square icon next to the column title)  of software for use in materials modelling, computer simulation and/or visualisation. ''The use of simulation software whose source code you have access to (for example,  Open Source, or GNU General Public License) is a fundamental tenet of good practice, and is highly recommended'' <ref>[http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.476021  Wilfred F. van Gunsteren, and Alan E. Mark "Validation of molecular dynamics simulation", Journal of Chemical Physics '''108''' pp. 6109-6116 (1998)]</ref>. | ||
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| ! Computer program !! Focus !! class="unsortable" | Notes !! License   | |||
| |-  | |||
| |[[Abalone]] | |||
| |[[molecular dynamics]], visualisation | |||
| |biopolymers | |||
| |Free | |||
| |-  | |||
| |[[ACEMD]] | |||
| |[[molecular dynamics]] | |||
| |biopolymers | |||
| |commercial | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[AMBER -- Assisted Model Building with Energy Refinement | AMBER]] | |||
| |[[molecular dynamics]] | |||
| |Assisted Model Building with Energy Refinement | |||
| |commercial | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[Assemble!]] | |||
| |configuration preparation | |||
| |preparation of molecular dynamics simulations of polymeric systems | |||
| |[http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00104655 Computer Physics Communications] library | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[AVOGADRO]] [http://avogadro.openmolecules.net/wiki/Main_Page] | |||
| |visualisation | |||
| |molecule editor and visualizer | |||
| |free | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[BD_BOX]] | |||
| |[[Brownian dynamics]] | |||
| |scalable (CPU/GPU) Brownian dynamics package for UNIX/LINUX platforms  | |||
| |GNU Public License | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[BOSS]] | |||
| | | |||
| | '''B'''iochemical and '''O'''rganic '''S'''imulation '''S'''ystem | |||
| |commercial | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[BRAHMS]] | |||
| |[[molecular dynamics]] | |||
| |'''B'''iomembrane '''R'''educed-'''A'''pproac'''H''' '''M'''olecular '''S'''imulator | |||
| |in development | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[CASTEP]]  | |||
| |[[density-functional theory]] | |||
| | | |||
| |commercial (free in United Kingdom) | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[CCP5 Program Library]] | |||
| |various | |||
| |program library | |||
| |free to academics | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[CHARMM]] | |||
| | | |||
| |'''C'''hemistry at '''HAR'''vard '''M'''olecular '''M'''echanics | |||
| |commercial | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[CPMD]] | |||
| |[[ab initio molecular dynamics]] | |||
| |'''C'''arr-'''P'''arrinello '''M'''olecular '''D'''ynamics  | |||
| |free with [http://www.cpmd.org/cpmd_licence.html license] | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[Dalton]] | |||
| | | |||
| |Computational chemistry | |||
| |free with [http://www.theochem.kth.se/dalton/ license] | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[DeePMD-kit]] [http://www.deepmd.org/] | |||
| |[[molecular dynamics]] | |||
| | deep learning based modelling of interatomic potential energy and force field and to perform MD | |||
| | GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[Desmond]] | |||
| |[[molecular dynamics]] | |||
| | | |||
| |commercial, free for academics | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[DiMol2D]] | |||
| |[[molecular dynamics]] | |||
| |Molecular dynamics visualization | |||
| |free executable  | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[DL_MESO]] | |||
| |[[dissipative particle dynamics]] | |||
| |Mesoscale simulation package | |||
| |free source with [http://www.cse.scitech.ac.uk/ccg/software/DL_MESO/Registration.shtml academic license] | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[DL_POLY]] | |||
| |[[molecular dynamics]] | |||
| |Molecular simulation package | |||
| |free source with [http://www.cse.scitech.ac.uk/ccg/software/DL_POLY/Registration.shtml academic license] | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[DynamO]] | |||
| |[[molecular dynamics]] | |||
| |[[Event-driven molecular dynamics]] | |||
| |free source  | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[EGO VIII]] | |||
| |[[molecular dynamics]] | |||
| | | |||
| |free | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[ENCAD]] | |||
| |[[molecular dynamics]] | |||
| |'''En'''ergy '''Ca'''lculation and '''D'''ynamics | |||
| | | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[ESPResSo]] | |||
| |[[molecular dynamics]] | |||
| |'''E'''xtensible '''S'''imulation '''P'''ackage for '''Res'''earch on '''So'''ft matter | |||
| |free | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[Etomica]] | |||
| | | |||
| |development environment | |||
| |free | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[FOCUS]] | |||
| |molecular dynamics analysis | |||
| | | |||
| | | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[GALAMOST]] | |||
| |[[molecular dynamics]] | |||
| |GPU-Accelerated Large-Scale Molecular Simulation Toolkit | |||
| |free (GNU license)  | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[Gaussian]] | |||
| |electronic structure | |||
| |Computational chemistry | |||
| |commercial | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[gdpc]] | |||
| |visualisation  | |||
| |molecular dynamics visualisation  | |||
| |free (GNU license) | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[GPEC]] [http://gpec.phasety.com] | |||
| |[[Binary phase diagrams]] | |||
| |'''G'''lobal '''P'''hase '''E'''quilibrium '''C'''alculations | |||
| |free | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[GPIUTMD]] | |||
| |[[molecular dynamics]] | |||
| |'''G'''raphical '''P'''rocessors at '''I'''sfahan '''U'''niversity of '''T'''echnology for '''M'''any-particle '''D'''ynamics | |||
| |not free, commercial | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[GROMACS]] | |||
| |[[molecular dynamics]] | |||
| | | |||
| |free source | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[GROMOS]] | |||
| |[[molecular dynamics]] | |||
| |biomolecular systems | |||
| |free for academics, fee otherwise | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[GULP]] | |||
| |[[lattice dynamics]] | |||
| |'''G'''eneral '''U'''tility '''L'''attice '''P'''rogram | |||
| |free for academics, fee otherwise | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[HOOMD]] | |||
| |[[molecular dynamics]] | |||
| |'''H'''ighly '''O'''ptimized '''O'''bject Oriented '''M'''olecular '''D'''ynamics. | |||
| |free, Open Source | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[IMD]] | |||
| |[[molecular dynamics]] | |||
| | | |||
| | | |||
| |-  | |||
| |[[iRASPA]] | |||
| |visualisation | |||
| | | |||
| |free (Mac App Store) | |||
| |-  | |||
| |[[Jmol]] | |||
| |visualisation | |||
| | | |||
| |free | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[LAMMPS]] | |||
| |[[molecular dynamics]] | |||
| | | |||
| |free source (GNU license) | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[MACSIMUS]]  | |||
| |[[molecular dynamics]] | |||
| |'''MAC'''romolecule '''SIMU'''lation '''S'''oftware | |||
| |free | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[MAPS]] | |||
| |simulation front-end, various | |||
| |'''Ma'''terials '''P'''rocesses and '''S'''imulations | |||
| |commercial | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[Materials Studio]] | |||
| |various | |||
| | | |||
| |commercial | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[MCCCS Towhee]] | |||
| |[[Monte Carlo]] | |||
| | | |||
| |free source | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[MCPRO]] | |||
| |[[Monte Carlo]] | |||
| |peptides, proteins, and nucleic acids in solution | |||
| |commercial | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[MDynaMix]] | |||
| |[[molecular dynamics]] | |||
| |molecular dynamics of mixtures | |||
| |free (GNU license)  | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[MOIL]]  | |||
| |[[molecular dynamics]] | |||
| | | |||
| |Open Source | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[Moldy]]  | |||
| |[[molecular dynamics]] | |||
| | | |||
| |free | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[Molecular Workbench]]  | |||
| | | |||
| |Interactive simulations | |||
| |free, Open Source | |||
| |- | |||
| |[http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2016.02.025 MoRiBS-PIMC] | |||
| |[[Path integral formulation  | path-integral Monte Carlo ]] | |||
| |molecular rotors in bosonic solvents | |||
| |CPC Program Library | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[Moscito]] | |||
| |[[molecular dynamics]] | |||
| | | |||
| |free (General Public License) | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[ms2]] | |||
| |[[Molecular dynamics]], [[Monte Carlo]], [[Green-Kubo relations | Green-Kubo]] formalism | |||
| |various classical ensembles | |||
| |CPC Program Library | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[Music]] | |||
| | | |||
| |'''Mu'''ltipurpose '''Si'''mulation '''C'''ode | |||
| |free (General Public License) | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[NAMD]] | |||
| |[[molecular dynamics]] | |||
| | | |||
| |free | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[NWChem]] | |||
| | | |||
| |Computational chemistry | |||
| |free | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[OCCAM]]  | |||
| |[[molecular dynamics]] | |||
| | | |||
| |free | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[OpenMD]]  | |||
| |[[molecular dynamics]] | |||
| | | |||
| |free - Open Source | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[ORAC]]  | |||
| |[[molecular dynamics]] | |||
| | | |||
| |free | |||
| |- | |||
| |[https://dna.physics.ox.ac.uk/index.php/Main_Page oxDNA] | |||
| |[[Monte Carlo]] and [[brownian dynamics]] | |||
| |simulation code that implements coarse-grained models for DNA and RNA [http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3552946] | |||
| |free (GNU General Public License)  | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[Packmol]] | |||
| |[[molecular dynamics]] | |||
| |creates an initial configuration for use in simulations | |||
| |free (GNU license)  | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[Peacemaker]] | |||
| |statistical thermodynamics | |||
| |Quantum cluster equilibrium calculations.  | |||
| |free (GNU GPL v3)  | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[PINY_MD]]  | |||
| |[[molecular dynamics]] | |||
| | | |||
| |free | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[Protein Explorer]] | |||
| |visualisation | |||
| |molecular graphics | |||
| |free | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[PyMol]] [http://www.pymol.org/] | |||
| |visualisation | |||
| |molecular graphics | |||
| |commercial (academic: free) | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[Q]] [http://xray.bmc.uu.se/~aqwww/q/] | |||
| |[[molecular dynamics]] | |||
| |[[Helmholtz energy function |free energy]] calculations in [[Biological systems | biomolecular systems]] | |||
| |free with [http://xray.bmc.uu.se/~aqwww/q/q_license.pdf licence] | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[QMGA]]  | |||
| |visualisation  | |||
| |molecular graphics | |||
| |free source | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[RasMol]]  | |||
| |visualisation  | |||
| |molecular graphics | |||
| |free source | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[RedMD]]  | |||
| |[[molecular dynamics]] | |||
| |'''Red'''uced '''M'''olecular '''D'''ynamics | |||
| |free, Open source | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[SageMD]] | |||
| |simulation front and back end | |||
| | | |||
| | | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[SIESTA]] | |||
| |[[ab initio molecular dynamics]] | |||
| |'''S'''panish '''I'''nitiative for '''E'''lectronic '''S'''imulations with '''T'''housands of '''A'''toms | |||
| |free for academics, fee otherwise | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[SMMP]] | |||
| |[[Monte Carlo]] | |||
| |'''S'''imple '''M'''olecular '''M'''echanics for '''P'''roteins | |||
| |free (General Public License) with restrictions | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[SSAGES]] | |||
| |[[Ensembles in thermostatistics | Ensemble]] simulations | |||
| |'''S'''oftware '''S'''uite for '''A'''dvanced '''G'''eneralized '''E'''nsemble '''S'''imulations | |||
| ||free (GNU / GitHub) | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[SYBYL]] | |||
| |various | |||
| | | |||
| |commercial | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[Tesla Bio Workbench]] | |||
| | | |||
| |GPU computing | |||
| | | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[TINKER]] | |||
| | | |||
| |Software tools for molecular design | |||
| |free source | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[toyMD]] | |||
| |[[molecular dynamics]] | |||
| | | |||
| |free (non-commercial) | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[UHBD]] | |||
| |[[brownian dynamics]] | |||
| |'''U'''niversity of '''H'''ouston '''B'''rownian '''D'''ynamics | |||
| |license required | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[VASP]] | |||
| |[[ab initio molecular dynamics]] | |||
| | | |||
| | | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[VMD]] | |||
| |visualisation | |||
| |Molecular dynamics visualisation in 3-dimensions | |||
| |free | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[WIEN2K]] | |||
| | | |||
| |Electronic structure calculation in solids | |||
| |commercial | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[XCrysDen]] | |||
| |visualisation | |||
| |Crystalline and molecular structure visualisation | |||
| |free (General Public License) | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[XMakemol]] [http://www.nongnu.org/xmakemol/] | |||
| |visualisation | |||
| | | |||
| |free | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[X-PLOR]] | |||
| | | |||
| |Computational structural biology | |||
| | | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[YASARA]] | |||
| | | |||
| | | |||
| |free & commercial | |||
| |- | |||
| |[[YASP]] [http://www.theo.chemie.tu-darmstadt.de/group/services/yaspdoc/yaspdoc.html] | |||
| |[[molecular dynamics]] | |||
| | | |||
| | | |||
| |} | |||
| <references/> | |||
| [[category: Materials modelling and computer simulation codes]] | |||
Latest revision as of 07:53, 5 June 2020
The following is a sortable list (to change sort criteria click on the square icon next to the column title) of software for use in materials modelling, computer simulation and/or visualisation. The use of simulation software whose source code you have access to (for example, Open Source, or GNU General Public License) is a fundamental tenet of good practice, and is highly recommended [1].
| Computer program | Focus | Notes | License | 
|---|---|---|---|
| Abalone | molecular dynamics, visualisation | biopolymers | Free | 
| ACEMD | molecular dynamics | biopolymers | commercial | 
| AMBER | molecular dynamics | Assisted Model Building with Energy Refinement | commercial | 
| Assemble! | configuration preparation | preparation of molecular dynamics simulations of polymeric systems | Computer Physics Communications library | 
| AVOGADRO [1] | visualisation | molecule editor and visualizer | free | 
| BD_BOX | Brownian dynamics | scalable (CPU/GPU) Brownian dynamics package for UNIX/LINUX platforms | GNU Public License | 
| BOSS | Biochemical and Organic Simulation System | commercial | |
| BRAHMS | molecular dynamics | Biomembrane Reduced-ApproacH Molecular Simulator | in development | 
| CASTEP | density-functional theory | commercial (free in United Kingdom) | |
| CCP5 Program Library | various | program library | free to academics | 
| CHARMM | Chemistry at HARvard Molecular Mechanics | commercial | |
| CPMD | ab initio molecular dynamics | Carr-Parrinello Molecular Dynamics | free with license | 
| Dalton | Computational chemistry | free with license | |
| DeePMD-kit [2] | molecular dynamics | deep learning based modelling of interatomic potential energy and force field and to perform MD | GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 | 
| Desmond | molecular dynamics | commercial, free for academics | |
| DiMol2D | molecular dynamics | Molecular dynamics visualization | free executable | 
| DL_MESO | dissipative particle dynamics | Mesoscale simulation package | free source with academic license | 
| DL_POLY | molecular dynamics | Molecular simulation package | free source with academic license | 
| DynamO | molecular dynamics | Event-driven molecular dynamics | free source | 
| EGO VIII | molecular dynamics | free | |
| ENCAD | molecular dynamics | Energy Calculation and Dynamics | |
| ESPResSo | molecular dynamics | Extensible Simulation Package for Research on Soft matter | free | 
| Etomica | development environment | free | |
| FOCUS | molecular dynamics analysis | ||
| GALAMOST | molecular dynamics | GPU-Accelerated Large-Scale Molecular Simulation Toolkit | free (GNU license) | 
| Gaussian | electronic structure | Computational chemistry | commercial | 
| gdpc | visualisation | molecular dynamics visualisation | free (GNU license) | 
| GPEC [3] | Binary phase diagrams | Global Phase Equilibrium Calculations | free | 
| GPIUTMD | molecular dynamics | Graphical Processors at Isfahan University of Technology for Many-particle Dynamics | not free, commercial | 
| GROMACS | molecular dynamics | free source | |
| GROMOS | molecular dynamics | biomolecular systems | free for academics, fee otherwise | 
| GULP | lattice dynamics | General Utility Lattice Program | free for academics, fee otherwise | 
| HOOMD | molecular dynamics | Highly Optimized Object Oriented Molecular Dynamics. | free, Open Source | 
| IMD | molecular dynamics | ||
| iRASPA | visualisation | free (Mac App Store) | |
| Jmol | visualisation | free | |
| LAMMPS | molecular dynamics | free source (GNU license) | |
| MACSIMUS | molecular dynamics | MACromolecule SIMUlation Software | free | 
| MAPS | simulation front-end, various | Materials Processes and Simulations | commercial | 
| Materials Studio | various | commercial | |
| MCCCS Towhee | Monte Carlo | free source | |
| MCPRO | Monte Carlo | peptides, proteins, and nucleic acids in solution | commercial | 
| MDynaMix | molecular dynamics | molecular dynamics of mixtures | free (GNU license) | 
| MOIL | molecular dynamics | Open Source | |
| Moldy | molecular dynamics | free | |
| Molecular Workbench | Interactive simulations | free, Open Source | |
| MoRiBS-PIMC | path-integral Monte Carlo | molecular rotors in bosonic solvents | CPC Program Library | 
| Moscito | molecular dynamics | free (General Public License) | |
| ms2 | Molecular dynamics, Monte Carlo, Green-Kubo formalism | various classical ensembles | CPC Program Library | 
| Music | Multipurpose Simulation Code | free (General Public License) | |
| NAMD | molecular dynamics | free | |
| NWChem | Computational chemistry | free | |
| OCCAM | molecular dynamics | free | |
| OpenMD | molecular dynamics | free - Open Source | |
| ORAC | molecular dynamics | free | |
| oxDNA | Monte Carlo and brownian dynamics | simulation code that implements coarse-grained models for DNA and RNA [4] | free (GNU General Public License) | 
| Packmol | molecular dynamics | creates an initial configuration for use in simulations | free (GNU license) | 
| Peacemaker | statistical thermodynamics | Quantum cluster equilibrium calculations. | free (GNU GPL v3) | 
| PINY_MD | molecular dynamics | free | |
| Protein Explorer | visualisation | molecular graphics | free | 
| PyMol [5] | visualisation | molecular graphics | commercial (academic: free) | 
| Q [6] | molecular dynamics | free energy calculations in biomolecular systems | free with licence | 
| QMGA | visualisation | molecular graphics | free source | 
| RasMol | visualisation | molecular graphics | free source | 
| RedMD | molecular dynamics | Reduced Molecular Dynamics | free, Open source | 
| SageMD | simulation front and back end | ||
| SIESTA | ab initio molecular dynamics | Spanish Initiative for Electronic Simulations with Thousands of Atoms | free for academics, fee otherwise | 
| SMMP | Monte Carlo | Simple Molecular Mechanics for Proteins | free (General Public License) with restrictions | 
| SSAGES | Ensemble simulations | Software Suite for Advanced Generalized Ensemble Simulations | free (GNU / GitHub) | 
| SYBYL | various | commercial | |
| Tesla Bio Workbench | GPU computing | ||
| TINKER | Software tools for molecular design | free source | |
| toyMD | molecular dynamics | free (non-commercial) | |
| UHBD | brownian dynamics | University of Houston Brownian Dynamics | license required | 
| VASP | ab initio molecular dynamics | ||
| VMD | visualisation | Molecular dynamics visualisation in 3-dimensions | free | 
| WIEN2K | Electronic structure calculation in solids | commercial | |
| XCrysDen | visualisation | Crystalline and molecular structure visualisation | free (General Public License) | 
| XMakemol [7] | visualisation | free | |
| X-PLOR | Computational structural biology | ||
| YASARA | free & commercial | ||
| YASP [8] | molecular dynamics |