Classical molecular dynamics
Additional materials for our lectures
Software packages
TrajLab is probably the first attempt for a general molecular simulation package in MATLAB. While the authors are well aware that many other highly specialized and highly optimized program packages for the same or similar purposes exist (e. g. AMBER, GROMACS, NAMD, etc.), the user-friendly MATLAB environment offers easy access to understanding and manipulating the codes, testing novel algorithms and non-standard force fields, advanced analysis techniques, and performing all kinds of numerical experiments with TrajLab.
Gromacs is a versatile package to perform molecular dynamics dimulations, i.e. simulate the Newtonian (or other variants) equations of motion for systems with hundreds to millions of particles. It is primarily designed for biochemical molecules like proteins, lipids and nucleic acids that have a lot of complicated bonded interactions, but since GROMACS is extremely fast at calculating the nonbonded interactions (that usually dominate the computational effort) many groups are also using it for research on non-biological systems, e.g. polymers.
Recommended papers
W. v. Gunsteren, A. E. Mark
Validation of molecular dynamics simulation
J. Chem. Phys. 108 (15), 6109-16 (1998)
Recommended books
Unsere Standardempfehlung ist das Buch von Tamar Schlick, das besonders auf biomolekulare Fragestellungen eingeht. Aber auch die Werke von Frenkel und Smit sowie von Leach mit ihrer physik- bzw. chemie-orientierten Sichtweise sind sehr lesenswert. Die benötigte Numerik ist in dem Buch von Hairer, Lubich und Wanner hervorragend erklärt. Über die technischen Aspekte von Simulationen erfährt man am meisten in dem ´´Klassiker´´ von Allen und Tildesley sowie in dem modernen Buch von Griebel et al.. Die zugehörige Mathematik ist relativ anschaulich in den ´´Numerischen Kochrezepten´´ von Press et al. dargestellt. Hinweis: Die meisten der genannten Bücher sind - zumindest teilweise - kostenlos bei Google einsehbar!
M. P. Allen, D. J. Tildesley
Computer Simulations of Liquids
Clarendon, Oxford (1987)Ch. Chipot, A. Pohorille (Hrsg.)
Free Energy Calculations
Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg (2007)C. J. Cramer
The Essentials of Computational Chemistry
John Wiley & Sons (2004)K. A. Dill and S. Bromberg
Molecular Driving Force
Garland Science / Taylor & Francis, New York/London (2002)D. Frenkel, B. Smit
Understanding Molecular Simulation: From Algorithms to Applications
Academic Press, San Diego (2002)M. Griebel, S. Knapek, G. Zumbusch, A. Caglar
Numerische Simulation in der Moleküldynamik
Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg (2004)E. Hairer, C. Lubich, G. Wanner
Geometric Numerical Integration
Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg (2002)H. D. Höltje, W. Sippl, D. Rognan, G. Folkers
Molecular Modeling: Basic Principles and Applications
Wiley, Hoboken/NJ (2008)F. Jensen
Introduction to Computational Chemistry
John Wiley & Sons (2004)A. R. Leach
Molecular Modelling: Principles and Applications
Prentice Hall, Harlow (2001)D. Marx and J. Hutter
Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics. Basic Theory and Advanced Methods
Cambridge University Press (2009)W. H. Press, S. A. Teutolsky, W. T. Vetterling, B. P. Flannery
Numerical Recipes. The Art of Scientific Computing
Cambridge University PressT. Schlick
Molecular Modeling and Simulation. An Interdisciplinary Guide
Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg (2002)M. Tuckerman
Statistical Mechanics. Theory and Molecular Simulation
Oxford University Press (2010)
Lecture notes
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