Title
PLUMED: A portable plugin for free-energy calculations with molecular dynamics
Abstract
Here we present a program aimed at free-energy calculations in molecular systems. It consists of a series of routines that can be interfaced with the most popular classical molecular dynamics (MD) codes through a simple patching procedure. This leaves the possibility for the user to exploit many different MD engines depending on the system simulated and on the computational resources available. Free-energy calculations can be performed as a function of many collective variables, with a particular focus on biological problems, and using state-of-the-art methods such as metadynamics, umbrella sampling and Jarzynski-equation based steered MD. The present software, written in ANSI-C language, can be easily interfaced with both Fortran and C/C++ codes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1016/j.cpc.2009.05.011
Computer Physics Communications
Keywords
Field
DocType
82.39.Rt,87.10.Tf,87.15.ap
Metadynamics,Umbrella sampling,Computer science,Fortran,Local Elevation,Exploit,Software,Computational science,Molecular dynamics,Plug-in
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
180
10
0010-4655
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
57
4.43
7
Authors
11