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Molecular Dynamics Engines

  • AMBER: suite of biomolecular simulation programs (standalone)
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  • CHARMM: Chemistry at HARvard Macromolecular Mechanics (standalone)
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  • CHARMM-GUI:
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  • GaMD: Gaussian Accelerated Molecular Dynamics (GaMD) is a biomolecular enhanced sampling method that works by adding a harmonic boost potential to smoothen the system potential energy surface.
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  • Gromacs: GROMACS is a versatile package for performing molecular dynamics simulations, primarily designed for simulations of proteins, lipids, and nucleic acids.
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  • HTMD:
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  • HTMD: a molecular-specific programmable environment to prepare, handle, simulate, visualize and analyze molecular systems (standalone)
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  • LAMMPS: Molecular Dynamics Simulator and much more
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  • NAMD: NAMD is a parallel molecular dynamics code for high-performance simulation of large biomolecular systems, recognized for its scalability and efficiency.
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  • openff-toolkit:
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  • OpenMM: OpenMM is a high-performance toolkit for molecular simulation, offering extensive language bindings and a flexible platform for developing high-performance algorithms.
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  • OpenMMDL: Interface to OpenMM for easy setup of molecular dynamic simulations of protein-ligand complexes
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  • openmmtools:
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  • QwikMD:
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  • SENPAI: SENPAI is a molecular dynamics simulation software aimed at students and academia, designed to simulate molecular systems of educational and academic interest efficiently.
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  • STORMM:
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  • Visual dynamics: a WEB application for molecular dynamics simulation using GROMACS (online)
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  • WEBGRO: MD simulation online with GROMACS (online)
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  • YAMACS: graphical user interface for the GROMACS program (standalone)
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  • GENESIS: The GENESIS package contains two MD programs (atdyn and spdyn), trajectory analysis programs, and other useful tools.
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  • GENESIS:
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Interoperable

  • SIRE: An interoperability engine for prototyping algorithms and exchanging information between molecular simulation programs
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ML-enabled

  • DeepDriveMD: Deep-Learning Driven Adaptive Molecular Simulations (standalone)
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  • MLCGMD: Simulate Time-integrated Coarse-grained Molecular Dynamics with Multi-scale Graph Networks
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  • NeuralMD:
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  • torchmd:
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Water

  • PyRod: PyRod is a Python software for generating dynamic molecular interaction fields and pharmacophore features based on the protein environment of water molecules in molecular dynamics simulations.
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