VMD

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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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Z2Pack

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

Analytical tool to calculate the Z2 topological number or Chern number from given band structures, which are derived from first-principles calculations or tight-binding Hamiltonians. The topological numbers are calculated from the evolution of Wannier charge center and this method is applicable to the systems without inversion symmetries.

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wxMacMolPlt

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  • Document quality 2 ★★☆

An open-source application for visualization developed for input and output of GAMESS. This application supports various types of input formats such as GAMESS, XYZ, MolDel, pdb, and CML as well as input by GUI and the Z-matrix format. It can visualize molecular orbitals, electron densities, electrostatic potentials, and normal modes, and can output results into various formats.

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XtalOpt

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An application for prediction of stable and metastable structures from a chemical composition. This application applies the revolutionary algorithm to structure prediction by using various external energy calculators (VASP, GULP, Quantum Espresso, CASTEP).

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Yambo

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

Code for performing many-body calculations based on the GW method, BSE method, etc. starting from Kohn-Sham wave functions obtained using density functional theory. The code relies on wave function output from either abinit or Quantum Espresso. A python interface, Yambo-py, is also under development.

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QWalk

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An open-source application for high-accuracy electronic-state calculation based on the variational Monte Carlo method and the diffusion Monte Carlo method. Although its computational cost is high, physical properties of atoms and small molecules in the ground states and excited states are calculated with very high accuracy. Includes an application program that generates input files from output of other packages for quantum chemical calculation, such as GAMESS, Gaussian, etc.

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QUANTUM ESPRESSO

  • Level of openness 3 ★★★
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Open-source program for first-principles calculation based on pseudo-potential and plane-wave basis. This package performs electronic-state calculation with high accuracy based on density functional theory. In addition to basic-set programs, many core-packages and plugins are included. This package can be utilized for academic research and industrial development, and also supports parallel computing.

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xTAPP

  • Level of openness 3 ★★★
  • Document quality 0 ☆☆☆

xTAPP is a first-principles plane-wave pseudo-potential code. It computes band structure and electronic states with high precision for a wide range of materials including metals, oxide surfaces, solid interfaces, and so forth. It has support tools and visualization of output and input, is available as a massively parallel computer using OpenMP, MPI, and GPGPU.

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Quantum Unfolding

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Code for unfolding first-principles electronic energy bands calculated using supercells into the corresponding primary-cell Brillouin zone. It uses maximally-localized Wannier functions calculated using Wannier90.

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Rasmol

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

A simple open-source application for visualization compatible to Protein Data Bank (PDB) format. This application also supports other formats such as Sybyl, Molden, Mopac, and CHARMM. It is a pioneering piece of software as an interactive PDB viewer.

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