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Revision as of 15:37, 12 March 2009
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 and computer simulation.
| Computer program | Focus | Notes | License | 
|---|---|---|---|
| AMBER | molecular dynamics | Assisted Model Building with Energy Refinement | commercial | 
| BOSS | Biochemical and Organic Simulation System | commercial | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | 
| ESPResSo | molecular dynamics | Extensible Simulation Package for Research on Soft matter | free | 
| Etomica | development environment | free | |
| Gaussian | electronic structure | Computational chemistry | commercial | 
| gdpc | visualisation | molecular dynamics visualisation | free (GNU license) | 
| GROMACS | molecular dynamics | free source | |
| GROMOS | molecular dynamics | biomolecular systems | free for academics, fee otherwise | 
| HOOMD | molecular dynamics | Highly Optimized Object Oriented Molecular Dynamics. | free, Open Source | 
| IMD | molecular dynamics | ||
| LAMMPS | molecular dynamics | free source (GNU license) | |
| MACSIMUS | molecular dynamics | MACromolecule SIMUlation Software | free | 
| 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) | 
| Moldy | molecular dynamics | free | |
| Molecular Workbench | Interactive simulations | free, Open Source | |
| Moscito | molecular dynamics | free (General Public License) | |
| Music | Multipurpose Simulation Code | free (General Public License) | |
| NAMD | molecular dynamics | free | |
| NWChem | Computational chemistry | free | |
| ORAC | molecular dynamics | free | |
| PINY_MD | molecular dynamics | free | |
| Protein Explorer | visualisation | molecular graphics | free | 
| RasMol | visualisation | molecular graphics | free source | 
| SIESTA | ab initio molecular dynamics | Spanish Initiative for Electronic Simulations with Thousands of Atoms | free for academics, fee otherwise | 
| SYBYL | various | commercial | |
| TINKER | Software tools for molecular design | free source | |
| 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) | 
| X-PLOR | Computational structural biology | ||
| YASARA | free |