# Awesome Molecular Dynamics [](https://awesome.re) [](https://github.com/ipudu/awesome-molecular-dynamics/stargazers) [](https://saythanks.io/to/ipudu) > A curated list of awesome Molecular Dynamics libraries, tools and software. ## Emoji Key * code: :octocat: * documentation: :book: ## Table of Contents + [Books](#books) + [Courses](#courses) + [MD engines](#md-engines) + [Trajectory Analysis](#trajectory-analysis) + [Visualization Tools](#visualization-tools) ## Books * [Computer Simulation of Liquids](https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Simulation-Liquids-Michael-Allen/dp/0198803206) - A classic book on molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations of liquids. [:octocat:][csol-code] * [Understanding Molecular Simulation: From Algorithms to Applications](https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Molecular-Simulation-Second-Computational/dp/0122673514/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1530897897&sr=8-1&keywords=understanding+molecular+simulation) - Molecular simulation bible. [:octocat:][ums-code] [csol-code]: https://github.com/Allen-Tildesley/examples [ums-code]: http://www.acmm.nl/molsim/frenkel_smit/README.html ## Courses * [Molecular Simulations](http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~cfa22/msim/msim.html) - An awesome introduction class to molecular simulations. * [Principles of modern molecular simulation methods](https://engineering.ucsb.edu/~shell/che210d/) - A course focuses on molecular simulation concepts, algorithms and tools. ## MD Engines/Frameworks * [Amber](http://ambermd.org/) - A suite of biomolecular simulation programs. [:book:][amber-doc] * [ASE](https://wiki.fysik.dtu.dk/ase/) - The Atomic Simulation Environment (ASE) is a set of tools and Python modules for setting up, manipulating, running, visualizing and analyzing atomistic simulations. [:octocat:][ase-code] * [CHARMM](https://www.charmm.org/) - A molecular simulation program with broad application to many-particle systems. [:book:][charmm-doc] * [Gromacs](http://www.gromacs.org/) - A molecular dynamics package mainly designed for simulations of proteins, lipids and nucleic acids. [:octocat:][gromacs-code][:book:][gromacs-doc] * [HOOMD-Blue](http://glotzerlab.engin.umich.edu/hoomd-blue/) - A general-purpose, python-based, GPU-accelerated molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulation framework. [:octocat:][hoomd-code][:book:][hoomd-doc] * [ipi](http://ipi-code.org) - i-PI: a universal force engine. [:octocat:][ipi-code] * [LAMMPS](http://lammps.sandia.gov/) - A classical molecular dynamics code, and an acronym for Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator. [:octocat:][lammps-code][:book:][lammps-doc] * [OpenMM](http://openmm.org/) - A toolkit for molecular simulation using high performance GPU code. [:octocat:][openmm-code][:book:][openmm-doc] * [pyiron](http://pyiron.org) - pyiron - an integrated development environment (IDE) for computational materials science. [:octocat:][pyiron-code] * [Tinker](https://dasher.wustl.edu/tinker/) - A complete and general package for molecular mechanics and dynamics, with some special features for biopolymers. [:octocat:][tinker-code][:book:][tinker-doc] [amber-doc]: http://ambermd.org/doc12/Amber16.pdf [ase-code]: https://gitlab.com/ase/ase [charmm-doc]: https://www.charmm.org/charmm/documentation/ [gromacs-code]: https://github.com/gromacs/gromacs [gromacs-doc]: http://manual.gromacs.org/documentation/ [hoomd-code]: https://github.com/glotzerlab/hoomd-blue [hoomd-doc]: https://hoomd-blue.readthedocs.io/ [ipi-code]: https://github.com/i-pi/i-pi [lammps-code]: https://github.com/lammps/lammps [lammps-doc]: http://lammps.sandia.gov/doc/Manual.html [openmm-code]:https://github.com/pandegroup/openmm [openmm-doc]:http://openmm.org/documentation.html [pyiron-code]: https://github.com/pyiron/pyiron [tinker-code]: https://github.com/TinkerTools/tinker [tinker-doc]:https://dasher.wustl.edu/tinker/downloads/guide.pdf ## Trajectory Analysis * [CppTraj](https://github.com/Amber-MD/cpptraj) - Biomolecular simulation trajectory/data analysis. * [Freud](https://freud.readthedocs.io/en/stable/) - Parallel, python-based analysis with an emphasis on local particle environments. [:octocat:][freud-code][:book:][freud-doc] * [MDAnalysis](https://www.mdanalysis.org/) - An object-oriented Python library to analyze trajectories from molecular dynamics (MD) simulations in many popular formats. * [MDTraj](http://mdtraj.org/) - A python library that allows users to manipulate molecular dynamics (MD) trajectories. * [PyTraj](https://amber-md.github.io/pytraj/) - A Python front-end of [CppTraj](https://github.com/Amber-MD/cpptraj). * [d-SEAMS](https://dseams.info) - Graph network based C++ and Lua based nucleation trajectory analysis software. [freud-code]: https://github.com/glotzerlab/freud [freud-doc]: https://freud.readthedocs.io/ ## Visualization Tools * [Avogadro](https://avogadro.cc/) - An advanced molecule editor and visualizer designed for cross-platform use in computational chemistry, molecular modeling, bioinformatics, materials science, and related areas. [:octocat:][avogadro-code][:book:][avogadro-doc] * [VMD](http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/) - A molecular visualization program for displaying, animating, and analyzing large biomolecular systems using 3-D graphics and built-in scripting. [:book:][vmd-doc] * [Plato](https://plato-draw.readthedocs.io/) - A python library for both interactive and figure-grade visualizations of particle systems. [:octocat:][plato-code][:book:][plato-doc] * [PyMOL](https://pymol.org/2/) - A user-sponsored molecular visualization system on an open-source foundation, maintained and distributed by Schrödinger. [:book:][pymol-doc] * [OVITO](https://ovito.org/) - OVITO is a scientific visualization and analysis software for atomistic and particle simulation data. [:book:][ovito-doc] * [NGLview](https://github.com/arose/nglview) - IPython widget to interactively view molecular structures and trajectories [:book:][nglview-doc] [avogadro-code]: https://github.com/cryos/avogadro [avogadro-doc]: https://avogadro.cc/docs/ [vmd-doc]: http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/current/docs.html [plato-code]: https://github.com/glotzerlab/plato [plato-doc]: https://plato-draw.readthedocs.io [pymol-doc]: http://pymol.sourceforge.net/newman/userman.pdf [ovito-doc]: http://www.ovito.org/manual/ [nglview-doc]: http://arose.github.io/nglview/latest/ ## Contributing Your contributions are always welcome! Please read the [contribution guidelines](https://github.com/ipudu/awesome-molecular-dynamics/blob/master/contributing.md) first. ## License [](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0) This work is is licensed under the Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal.