Free and open source software for computational chemistry education

S Lehtola, AJ Karttunen - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
After decades of waiting, computational chemistry for the masses is finally here. Our brief
review on free and open source software (FOSS) packages points out the existence of …

Development and benchmarking of open force field 2.0. 0: the Sage small molecule force field

S Boothroyd, PK Behara, OC Madin… - Journal of chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We introduce the Open Force Field (OpenFF) 2.0. 0 small molecule force field for drug-like
molecules, code-named Sage, which builds upon our previous iteration, Parsley. OpenFF …

Spice, a dataset of drug-like molecules and peptides for training machine learning potentials

P Eastman, PK Behara, DL Dotson, R Galvelis, JE Herr… - Scientific Data, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Machine learning potentials are an important tool for molecular simulation, but their
development is held back by a shortage of high quality datasets to train them on. We …

MACE-OFF23: Transferable machine learning force fields for organic molecules

DP Kovács, JH Moore, NJ Browning, I Batatia… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Classical empirical force fields have dominated biomolecular simulation for over 50 years.
Although widely used in drug discovery, crystal structure prediction, and biomolecular …

Growing Spicy ONIOMs: Extending and generalizing concepts of ONIOM and many body expansions

P Seeber, S Seidenath, J Steinmetzer… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The ONIOM method and many extensions to it provide capabilities to treat challenging
multiscale problems in catalysis and material science. Our open‐source program Spicy is a …

A perspective on sustainable computational chemistry software development and integration

R Di Felice, ML Mayes, RM Richard… - Journal of chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The power of quantum chemistry to predict the ground and excited state properties of
complex chemical systems has driven the development of computational quantum chemistry …

pbqff: Push-button quartic force fields

BR Westbrook, RC Fortenberry - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2023 - ACS Publications
pbqff is an open-source program for fully automating the production of quartic force fields
(QFFs) and their corresponding anharmonic spectroscopic data. Rather than being a …

Open force field BespokeFit: automating bespoke torsion parametrization at scale

JT Horton, S Boothroyd, J Wagner… - Journal of chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The development of accurate transferable force fields is key to realizing the full potential of
atomistic modeling in the study of biological processes such as protein–ligand binding for …

Conformational Energy Benchmark for Longer n-Alkane Chains

S Ehlert, S Grimme, A Hansen - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2022 - ACS Publications
We present the first benchmark set focusing on the conformational energies of highly
flexible, long n-alkane chains, termed ACONFL. Unbranched alkanes are ubiquitous …

TREXIO: A file format and library for quantum chemistry

E Posenitskiy, VG Chilkuri, A Ammar… - The Journal of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
ABSTRACT TREXIO is an open-source file format and library developed for the storage and
manipulation of data produced by quantum chemistry calculations. It is designed with the …