Chem3D

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A payware for modeling and visualizing molecules. This software includes a standard editor, ChemDraw, and can perform modeling from chemical structural formula. It implements structure optimization and molecular dynamics by molecular mechanics, and provides useful GUIs for MOPAC, Jaguar, GAMESS, and Gaussian. It can also perform spectroscopy analysis. It is included in high-end packages such as ChemBioOffice and ChemOffice.

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TURBOMOLE

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Payware for the ab-initio quantum chemical calculation. This application preforms high-speed electronic structure calculation by introducing the RI approximation, and evaluates not only ground states but also excited states by various methods such as full RPA, TDDFT, CIS(D), CC2, ADC(2). It can also be used for evaluation of spectra data of infrared(IR), visible(Vis)/ultraviolet(UV), Raman, and circular dichroism spectroscopy.

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GASP

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An application for structure prediction based on the genetic algorithm. This application can predict the structure and composition of stable phase of crystals, molecules, atomic clusters, and so on by using first-principles calculation and molecular dynamics. This application implements interfaces with various programs such as VASP, LAMMPS, MOPAC, GULP, JDFTx, etc, and runs efficiently on parallel computing architectures.

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Molden

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An open-source application for pre- and post-processing for quantum chemistry calculation. This application can handle outputs from Gaussian, GAMESS, and MOPAC as well as the result of other applications via the Molden format. It supports many graphical interfaces such as Postscript, XWindows, VRML, and OpenGL, and performs visualization of molecular orbitals and electron density. It also produces animation videos of molecular vibration.

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GAMESS-US

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An open-source application for ab initio quantum chemical calculation. This application performs electronic structure calculation of molecules by the Hartree-Fock, density functional, many-body perturbation, configuration interaction theories, and so on. Even though this application is freeware, it succeeds in maintaining high-quality and high-performance codes by active development, and has a number of world-wide users. It histrically shares core programs with GAMESS-UK.

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GAMESS-UK

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An application for ab initio quantum chemical calculation. This application performs electronic structure calculation of molecules by the Hartree-Fock, density functional, many-body perturbation, configuration interaction theories, and so on. This application is free only for academic use in United Kingdom. Although it histrically shares core programs with GAMESS-US, different functions have been added in later development.

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NWChem

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An open-source application for general-purpose quantum chemical calculation, laying emphasis on excited states and time evolution. It is based on time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) and the QM/MM calculation. It enables efficient massive parallel computing up to one hundred thousands processes. It supports the relativistic effect and offers the basis choice between the Gaussian basis and the plane-wave basis.

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NTChem

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An application for molecular science simulation. This application covers not only traditional simulation methods implemented in existing applications but also a number of novel methods for quantum chemical calculation. It can perform ab-initio electronic state calculation for a few thousands atoms/molecules as well as trace calculation of transition states in chemical reaction for a few hundreds atoms/molecules. It can also perform high-efficient massively parallel computing on large-scale parallel computers such as the K-computer.

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SMASH

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Open source software for massively parallel quantum chemistry calculations. Energies and geometries of nano-sized molecules can be calculated without fragmentation. The program supports Hartree-Fock, density functional theory, and second-order Møller-Plesset perturbation theory calculations. The input format, execution method, and program structure are simple, and frequently used routines can be easily extracted.

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fu-suite

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A GUI program for structure modeling of giant molecules. This application consists of two programs, “fumodel” and “fuplot”. The former supports preparation of input data for FMO in GAMESS, whereas the latter is software for making graphs from numerical results obtained by FMO.

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