LOBSTER

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A post-processor of first-principles calculations for performing COHP (crystal orbital Hamilton population) and COOP (crystal orbital overlap population) chemical bonding analysis. It works with VASP, ABINIT and Quantum ESPRESSO output. The program is provided under an academic-only license.

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VESTA

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

A piece of software for obtaining crystal structure and visualizing three-dimensional data that runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X platforms. It can handle 30 structure data formats and 17 volumetric data formats for input, and 13 structure data formats and 6 volumetric data formats for output. It is distributed free of charge in binary format for noncommercial purposes.

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ORCA

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

An open-source application of semi-empirical/ab-initio quantum chemical calculation that comes under an academic license. It performs various quantum chemical calculations based on Hartree-Fock theory, density functional theory, and configuration interaction theory, yielding electronic states and enabling structure optimization and molecular spectrum analysis. Molecular dynamics calculation based on the QM/MM method is also possible by using this software in combination with GROMACS.

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QTWARE

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

An application for evaluation of thermoelectric properties and its visualization. Seebeck coefficients and Peltier coefficients can be calculated from output of the first-principles applications, OpenMX and TranSIESTA. Obtained results as well as electron density and density of states can be visualized.

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GULP

  • Level of openness 0 ☆☆☆
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An application program for lattice dynamics calculation of molecules, surfaces, and solids in various boundary conditions. It lays emphasis on analytic calculation of lattice dynamics while it can perform molecular dynamics simulation as well. It supports various force fields to treat ionic materials, organic materials, and metals. It also implements analytic derivatives of the second and third order for many force fields.

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Osaka2k

  • Level of openness 1 ★☆☆
  • Document quality 2 ★★☆

An open-source application for first-principles calculation utilizing pseudo-potentials and plane-wave basis sets. This application is capable of performing electronic structure calculations of a wide range of physical systems such as crystals and surfaces/interfaces. It supports structure relaxation, phonon-dispersion calculation, and molecular dynamics simulation, and can deal with systems with the spin-orbit interaction.

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VisBAR

  • Level of openness 3 ★★★
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A set of Python scripts for post-simulation data analysis of large-scale electronic state calculations. Currently the open script is ‘VisBAR Wave Batch’ that visualizes many wavefunctions, as isosurfaces, simultaneously. The script generates picture files in PNG and other formats from grid data files in the Gaussian cube format. Many data files can be treated in parallelism by MPI.
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XCRYSDEN

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

An open-source application for visualization of crystal structures and grid data that runs on most UNIX and UNIX-like platforms. This application can visualize calculation results from the following electronic structure packages: GAUSSIAN, CRYSTAL, Quantum Espresso (PWscf), WIEN2k, FHI98MD. Three-dimensional data such as electron densities and local potentials as well as Fermi surfaces can be visualized using this application.

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VMD

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

An open-source application for modeling, visualization, and analysis of biomolecule systems such as proteins, nuclear acids, and lipid bilayers. This application visualizes biomolecules by reading Protein Data Bank (PDB) files. It supports various options in rendering and coloring of molecules, and also can animate the result of a molecular dynamics simulation.

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Winmostar

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

Integrated applications for quantum chemical, molecular dynamics, and first-principles calculations. Users can perform all the operations necessary for simulation by mouse operation, from creating input files, to performing calculations, to analyzing and displaying results. It supports open source software such as GAMESS, NWChem, Gromacs, LAMMPS, Quantum ESPRESSO and OpenMX, as well as industry-standard software such as MOPAC and Gaussian.

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