| Orac | |
|---|---|
| Original authors | Massimo Marchi, Piero Procacci |
| Developers | CEA, Saclay, Paris, FR; Florence University, IT |
| Release | 1990 (1990) |
| Stable release | 5.4.1
/ 2010 (2010) |
| Preview release | 6.0
/ 2016 (2016) |
| Written in | Fortran |
| Operating system | Unix, Linux |
| Platform | IA-32, x86-64, NUMA |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Molecular dynamics |
| License | GPL |
| Website | www |
In computer software, Orac is a classical molecular dynamics program, to simulate complex molecular systems at the atomistic level. In 1989–1990, the code was written originally by Massimo Marchi during his stay at International Business Machines (IBM), Kingston (USA). In 1995, the code was developed further at the Centre européen de calcul atomique et moléculaire (CECAM). It is written in the programming language Fortran. In 1997, it was released under a GNU General Public License (GPL).1 The latest release 2 of Orac may be run in parallel using the standard Message Passing Interface (MPI) libraries, allowing replica exchange simulations, multiple walkers metadynamics3 simulations and multiple steered molecular dynamics4 nonequilibrium trajectories.
References
References
- Procacci, P.; Darden, T.A.; Paci, E.; Marchi, M. (1997). "ORAC: A Molecular Dynamics Program to Simulate Complex Molecular Systems with Realistic Electrostatic Interactions". Journal of Computational Chemistry. 18 (15): 1848–1862. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.554.895. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1096-987X(19971130)18:15<1848::AID-JCC2>3.0.CO;2-O.
- Marsili, S.; Signorini, G.F.; Chelli, R.; Marchi, M.; Procacci, P. (2010). "ORAC: A molecular dynamics simulation program to explore free energy surfaces in biomolecular systems at the atomistic level". Journal of Computational Chemistry. 31 (5): 1106–1116. doi:10.1002/jcc.21388. PMID 19824035.
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