| Author | Peter Eastman |
|---|---|
| Developer | Stanford University Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Pompeu Fabra University National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute |
| Released | January 20, 2010[1] |
| Latest release version | 8.2.0 |
| Latest release date | 8 November 2024 (age 1)[2] |
| Programming language | C++, C, CUDA, Python |
| Operating system | Linux, macOS, Windows |
| Platform | Many |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Molecular dynamics |
| License | MIT License LGPL |
| Website | 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
- GROMACS
- CHARMM
- NAMD
- AMBER
- Comparison of force field implementations
- Grace (plotting tool)
- Folding@home
- Comparison of software for molecular mechanics modeling
- Molecular design software
- Bennett acceptance ratio
- LAMMPS
References
- ^ "SimTK: OpenMM: Downloads". SimTK. 2020-12-10. Retrieved 2022-09-09.
- ^ "Release OpenMM 8.2.0 · openmm/openmm". GitHub. 2024-11-08. Retrieved 2025-02-27.
- ^ Zimmerman, Maxwell I.; Porter, Justin R.; Ward, Michael D.; Singh, Sukrit; Vithani, Neha; Meller, Artur; Mallimadugula, Upasana L.; Kuhn, Catherine E.; Borowsky, Jonathan H.; Wiewiora, Rafal P.; Hurley, Matthew F. D.; Harbison, Aoife M.; Fogarty, Carl A.; Coffland, Joseph E.; Fadda, Elisa; Voelz, Vincent A.; Chodera, John D.; Bowman, Gregory R. (2021-05-24). "SARS-CoV-2 simulations go exascale to predict dramatic spike opening and cryptic pockets across the proteome". Nature Chemistry. 13 (7): 651–659. Springer Science and Business Media LLC. Bibcode:2021NatCh..13..651Z. doi:10.1038/s41557-021-00707-0. ISSN 1755-4330. PMC 8249329. PMID 34031561