Open Source C Simulation Software

This is a collection of software modifications created to integrate NanoEngineer-1, PACKMOL and MSI2LMP for the purpose of easily creating molecular dynamics cells. NanoEngineer-1 is a molecular CAD software written by Nanorex and provides the user an easy way to create molecules, while the software modifications allow the user to type atoms using multiple force fields. PACKMOL can generate a random collection of molecules using the molecule templates from NanoEngineer-1 thus providing the initial MD cell. Modifications to PACKMOL allow the atom type data to be passed through to the MSI2LMP software. MSI2LMP creates a LAMMPS input file based on class I or class II force fields. MSI2LMP was modified to use numerically coded force field data generated by NanoEngineer-1. The MMP file format was extended and integrated into all three software applications. http://www.nanoengineer-1.net http://www.ime.unicamp.br/~martinez/packmol/ http://lammps.sandia.gov/

ParamIT is a toolkit aiding the development of molecular mechanical force field parameterization of small, drag like, molecules within CHARMM general force field (CGenFF) protocol. The developed toolkit helps the researchers in following ways: 1) automating the creation of multiple input files for quantum and molecular mechanics programs, 2) automating the output analysis and 3) substitute the use of full MM programs with a faster specialized one. The developed tools include: 1) generator of molecule-water complexes with graphical user interface (GUI), 2) semi-automatic frequency analysis using symbolic potential energy distribution matrix and comparison of optimized internal coordinates, 3) GUI for charge fitting with three modes: manual, Monte-Carlo sampling or brute force, and 4) GUI for dihedral terms fitting. The usage of these tools decreases the labor effort, lowers manual input errors and reduces the time needed for accurate MM parameterization efforts.

MDcore is an Open-Source library implementing the core functionality of a Molecular Dynamics engine. The engine is inherently multi-threaded and runs efficiently on multi-processor/multi-core shared-memory architectures.