myPresto

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Commercially-available free software for Computer-Aided Drug Development. It includes programs for compound database, protein-compound docking, structure-based drug screening, ligand-based drug screening, protein-ligand binding site prediction, molecular editor, physical property prediction, synthetic accessibility prediction, thermodynamic calculation including multi-canonical dynamics, and molecular dynamics simulations with and without acceleration using GPUs and MPI parallelization.

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Open Babel

  • Level of openness 3 ★★★
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An open-source application for translating chemical structure format files. More than 110 formats are supported. This application is actively being developed taking into account use and construction of database and application to infomational technology in chemistry (chemoinformatics). A graphical user interface is alsp provided for Windows.

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PHASE

  • Level of openness 3 ★★★
  • Document quality 3 ★★★

An electronic structure calculation program based on the density functional theory and the pseudo potential scheme with a plane wave basis set. This is a powerful tool to predict the physical properties of unknown materials and to simulate experimental results such as STM and EELS. This also enables users to perform long time molecular dynamics simulations and to analyze chemical reaction processes. This program is available on a wide variety of computers from single-core PCs to massive parallel computers like K computer. The whole source code is open to public.

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OpenKIM

  • Level of openness 3 ★★★
  • Document quality 3 ★★★

Open-source tools and a database for molecular simulation. Data of molecular models (interatomic potentials and force fields), result data of molecular simulation, and test tools can be downloaded freely. API (Application Programming Interface) for exchanging information between atomistic simulation codes and interatomic models is also provided.

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Kwant

  • Level of openness 3 ★★★
  • Document quality 3 ★★★

An open-source Python package for calculation of quantum transport properties. Based on tight-binding models, this application can perform high-speed calculation of various transport properties such as conductance, current noise, and density of states. It can describe geometries of physical systems flexibly and easily, and can also treat superconductors, ferromagnetic materials, topological matters, and graphene.

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LAMMPS

  • Level of openness 3 ★★★
  • Document quality 3 ★★★

A general-purpose open-source application for classical molecular dynamics simulation, distributed under the GPL license. This package can perform molecular dynamics calculation of various systems such as soft matters, solids, and mesoscopic systems. It can be used as a simulator of classical dynamics of realistic atoms as well as general model particles. It supports parallel computing through spatial divisions. Its codes are designed so that their modification and extension are easy.

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PIMD

  • Level of openness 3 ★★★
  • Document quality 3 ★★★

An open-source application for molecular simulations. This application supports various methods such as classical and ab initio molecular dynamics, path integral simulations, replica exchange simulations, metadynamics, string method, surface hopping dynamics, QM/MM simulations, and so on. A hierarchical parallelization between molecular structures (replicas) and force fields (adiabatic potentials) enables fast and efficient computation.

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GNXAS

  • Level of openness 2 ★★☆
  • Document quality 3 ★★★

An application for analysis of extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) based on the multiple scattering theory. This application implements relativistic self-consistent calculation using the muffin-tin approximation to evaluate atomic phase shift including effect of neighboring atoms. Spectra with any number of edges can be treated simultaneously. Complex background multi-electron excitation can also be evaluated.

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OpenMX

  • Level of openness 3 ★★★
  • Document quality 3 ★★★

OpenMX is a first-principles software based on the pseudo-atomic localized basis functions. It calculates electronic structure rapidly for a wide range of materials including crystals, interfaces, liquids, etc. It speedily provides molecular dynamics simulation and structural optimization of large-scale systems and also implements a hybrid parallelism. It is able to deal with non-collinear magnetism and non-equilibrium Green’s function calculations for electrical conductions.

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GPAW

  • Level of openness 3 ★★★
  • Document quality 3 ★★★

An open-source application for first-principles calculation based on the PAW method. By utilizing real-space or atom-localized basis sets, this application performs electronic structure calculation based on the density functional theory as well as the GW approximation. Simulations are set up using the interface provided by Atomic Simulation Environment (ASE). The code is written in C and python, and is available under GPL.

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