Software:OpenMM

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Short description: Molecular dynamics software
OpenMM
Original author(s)Peter Eastman
Developer(s)Stanford University
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Pompeu Fabra University
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Initial releaseJanuary 20, 2010; 14 years ago (January 20, 2010)[1]
Stable release
8.0.0 / 30 January 2023; 12 months ago (2023-01-30)[2]
Written inC++, C, CUDA, Python
Operating systemLinux, macOS, Windows
PlatformMany
Available inEnglish
TypeMolecular dynamics
LicenseMIT License
LGPL
Websitewww.openmm.org

OpenMM is a library for performing molecular dynamics simulations on a wide variety of hardware architectures. First released in January 2010,[1] it was written by Peter Eastman at the Vijay S. Pande lab at Stanford University. It is notable for its implementation in the Folding@home project's core22 kernel. Core22, also developed at the Pande lab, uses OpenMM to perform protein dynamics simulations on GPUs via CUDA and OpenCL. During the COVID-19 pandemic, a peak of 280,000 GPUs were estimated to be running OpenMM via core22.[3]

Features

OpenMM has a C++ API as well as a Python wrapper. Developers are able to customize force fields as well as integrators for low-level simulation control. Users who only require high-level control of their simulations can use built-in force fields (consisting of many commonly used force fields) and built in integrators like Langevin, Verlet, Nosé–Hoover, and Brownian.

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "SimTK: OpenMM: Downloads". 2020-12-10. https://simtk.org/frs/?group_id=161. 
  2. "Release OpenMM 8.0.0 · openmm/openmm". 2023-01-31. https://github.com/openmm/openmm/releases/tag/8.0.0. 
  3. Zimmerman, Maxwell I.; Porter, Justin R.; Ward, Michael D.; Singh, Sukrit; Vithani, Neha; Meller, Artur; Mallimadugula, Upasana L.; Kuhn, Catherine E. et al. (2021-05-24). "SARS-CoV-2 simulations go exascale to predict dramatic spike opening and cryptic pockets across the proteome". Nature Chemistry (Springer Science and Business Media LLC) 13 (7): 651–659. doi:10.1038/s41557-021-00707-0. ISSN 1755-4330.