Name
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View 3D
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Model builder
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Min
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MD
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MC
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REM
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QM
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Imp
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GPU
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Comments
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License
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Website
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AMBER[1]
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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I
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Yes
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Yes
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High Performance MD, Comprehensive analysis tools
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Proprietary, Free open source
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AMBER MD
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Abalone
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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I
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Yes
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Yes
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Biomolecular simulations, protein folding.
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Proprietary, gratis, commercial
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Agile Molecule
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ADF
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Modeling suite: ReaxFF, UFF, QM-MM with Amber and Tripos force fields, DFT and semi-empirical methods, conformational analysis with RDKit; partly GPU-accelerated
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Proprietary, commercial, gratis trial
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SCM
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Ascalaph Designer
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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I
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Yes
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Yes
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Molecular building (DNA, proteins, hydrocarbons, nanotubes), molecular dynamics, GPU acceleration
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Mixed: free open source (GNU GPL) & commercial
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Ascalaph Project
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Avogadro
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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No
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No
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I
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No
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No
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Molecule building, editing (peptides, small molecules, crystals), conformational analysis, 2D/3D conversion; extensible interfaces to other tools
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Free open source GNU GPL
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Avogadro
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BOSS
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No
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No
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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No
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No
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OPLS
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Proprietary
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Yale University
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CHARMM
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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I
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I
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Yes
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Yes
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Commercial version with multiple graphical front ends is sold by BIOVIA (as CHARMm), formerly Accelrys.
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Proprietary, commercial
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charmm.org
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CHEMKIN
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No
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No
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No
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No
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No
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No
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No
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No
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No
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Chemical reaction kinetics.
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Proprietary
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CHEMKIN
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CP2K
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No
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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CP2K can perform atomistic and molecular simulations of solid state, liquid and biological systems.
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Free open source GNU GPLv2 or later
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CP2K
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Desmond
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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No
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No
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Yes
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High performance MD; has comprehensive GUI to build, visualize, and review results and calculation setup up and launch
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Proprietary, commercial or gratis
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D. E. Shaw Research Schrödinger
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Discovery Studio
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Comprehensive life science modeling and simulation suite of applications focused on optimizing drug discovery process: small molecule simulations, QM-MM, pharmacophore modeling, QSAR, protein-ligand docking, protein homology modeling, sequence analysis, protein-protein docking, antibody modeling, etc.
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Proprietary, trial available
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Dassault Systèmes BIOVIA (formerly Accelrys)
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fold.it
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Y / I
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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I
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No
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No
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University of Washington and The Baker Labs; structure prediction, protein folding
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Proprietary, commercial or gratis
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fold.it download page Archived 2011-04-04 at the Wayback Machine
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FoldX
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I
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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No
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No
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No
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No
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No
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Energy calculations, protein design
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Proprietary, commercial or gratis
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CRG
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GROMACS
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No
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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No[2]
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Yes
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I
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Yes[3]
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Yes
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High performance MD
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Free open source GNU GPL
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gromacs.org
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GROMOS
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No
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Intended for biomolecules
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Proprietary, commercial
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GROMOS website
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LAMMPS
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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I
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Yes
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Yes
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Has potentials for soft and solid-state materials and coarse-grain systems
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Free open source, GNU GPLv2
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Sandia
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MacroModel
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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I
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Yes
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No
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OPLS-AA, MMFF, GBSA solvent model, conformational sampling, minimizing, MD. Includes the Maestro GUI which provides visualizing, molecule building, calculation setup, job launch and monitoring, project-level organizing of results, access to a suite of other modelling programs.
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Proprietary
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Schrödinger
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MAPS[4]
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Building, visualizing, and analysis tools in one user interface, with access to multiple simulation engines
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Proprietary, trial available
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Scienomics
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Materials Studio
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Environment that brings materials simulation technology to desktop computing, solving key problems in R&D processes
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Proprietary, trial available
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Dassault Systèmes BIOVIA (formerly Accelrys)
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MBN Explorer[5] + MBN Studio
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Standard and reactive CHARMM force fields; molecular modeler (carbon nanomaterials, biomolecules, nanocrystals); explicit library of examples
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Proprietary, free trial available
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MBN Research Center
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MDynaMix
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No
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No
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No
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Yes
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No
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No
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No
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No
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No
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Parallel MD
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Free open source GNU GPL
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Stockholm University
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MOE
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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No
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I
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Yes
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No
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Molecular Operating Environment (MOE)
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Proprietary
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Chemical Computing Group
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ms2
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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No
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No
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No
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direct on the fly computation of large number of thermophysical properties. Main application of ms2 is on fluids.
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Free open source
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ms-2.de
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OpenMM
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No
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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High Performance MD, highly flexible, Python scriptable
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Free open source MIT
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OpenMM
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Orac
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No
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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No
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Molecular dynamics simulation program to explore free energy surfaces in biomolecular systems at the atomic level
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Free open source
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Orac download page
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NAMD + VMD
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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I
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Yes
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Yes
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Fast, parallel MD, CUDA
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Proprietary, free academic use, source code
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Beckman Institute
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NWChem
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No
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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No
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Yes
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No
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No
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High-performance computational chemistry software, includes quantum mechanics, molecular dynamics and combined QM-MM methods
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Free open source, Educational Community License version 2.0
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NWChem
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Protein Local Optimization Program
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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No
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No
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No
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Helix, loop, and side chain optimizing, fast energy minimizing
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Proprietary
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PLOP wiki
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Q
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No
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No
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No
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Yes
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No
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No
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No
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No
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No
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(I) Free energy perturbation (FEP) simulations, (II) empirical valence bond (EVB), calculations of reaction free energies, (III) linear interaction energy (LIE) calculations of receptor-ligand binding affinities
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Free open source GNU GPLv2 or later
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Q
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QuantumATK
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Complete atomistic modeling platform for material science. It includes DFT (Plane-Wave and LCAO), Semi-empirical, and Force Field simulation engines.
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Proprietary, commercial
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Synopsys QuantumATK
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Quantum ESPRESSO
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No
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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No
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Yes
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I
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Yes
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Open-source suite focused on electronic-structure calculations and MD (particularly CPMD), popular for its flexibility and extensive community support.
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Free open source GNU GPLv2 or later
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Quantum ESPRESSO
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SAMSON
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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No
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Yes
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No
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No
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Computational nanoscience (life sciences, materials, etc.). Modular architecture, modules termed SAMSON Elements
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Proprietary, gratis
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SAMSON Connect
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Scigress
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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MM, DFT, semiempirical methods, parallel MD, conformational analysis, Linear scaling SCF, docking protein-ligand, Batch processing, virtual screening, automated builders (molecular dynamics, proteins, crystals)
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Proprietary
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SCIGRESS.com
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Spartan
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Small molecule (< 2,000 a.m.u.) MM and QM tools to determine conformation, structure, property, spectra, reactivity, and selectivity.
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Proprietary, free trial available
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Wavefunction, Inc.
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TeraChem
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No
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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No
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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High performance GPU-accelerated ab initio molecular dynamics and TD/DFT software package for very large molecular or even nanoscale systems. Runs on NVIDIA GPUs and 64-bit Linux, has heavily optimized CUDA code.
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Proprietary, trial licenses available
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PetaChem LLC
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TINKER
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I
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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I
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I
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Yes
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Yes
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Software tools for molecular design-Tinker-OpenMM[6]
Software tools for molecular design-Tinker-HP[7]
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Proprietary, gratis
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Washington University
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UCSF Chimera
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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No
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No
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No
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No
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No
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Visually appealing viewer, amino acid rotamers and other building, includes Antechamber and MMTK, Ambertools plugins in development.
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Proprietary, free academic use
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University of California
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VASP
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No
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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I
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Yes
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Highly efficient DFT code often used in materials science providing excellent performance on large systems.
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Proprietary
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VASP
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YASARA
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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No
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Molecular graphics, modeling, simulation
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Proprietary
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YASARA.org
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