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Amber

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Amber is a set of molecular mechanical force fields for the simulation of biomolecules.

The program package contains cca 50 programs, which cover a wide spectrum of computational chemistry. The main programs are the following Amber modules:

sander

Simulated annealing with NMR-derived energy restraints. This allows for NMR refinement based on NOE-derived distance restraints, torsion angle restraints, and penalty functions based on chemical shifts and NOESY volumes.

pmemd

This is an extensively-modified version of the sander program, optimized for periodic, PME simulations, and for GB simulations.

nmode

Normal mode analysis program using first and second derivative information, used to search for local minima, perform vibrational analysis, and search for transition states.

LEaP

LEaP is an X-windows-based program that provides for basic model building and Amber coordinate and parameter/topology input file creation. It includes a molecular editor that allows the building of residues and the manipulation of molecules.

antechamber

This program suite automates the process of developing force field descriptors for most organic molecules. It starts with structures (usually in PDB format), and generates files that can be read into LEaP for use in molecular modeling. The force field description that is generated is designed to be compatible with the usual Amber force fields for proteins and nucleic acids.

ptraj

Tool to analyze MD trajectories, computing a variety of things, like RMS deviation from a reference structure, hydrogen bonding analysis, time-correlation functions, diffusional behaviour, and so on.

mm_pbsa

This is a script to automate post-processing of MD trajectories, to analyze energetics using continuum solvent ideas. It can be used to break energies energies into "pieces" arising from different residues, and to estimate free energy differences between conformational basins.

Usage and license

  • 24.x modules

    • available to all users who will provide source code to us as evidence that developers register them for non-commercial use
    • the module contains the following binaries - sequential, .MPI and .cuda (GPU)

  • 22.x modules

    • available to all users of MetaCentrum
    • users need to accept the Amber license to be able to run the job
    • the module contains all types of binaries - sequential, .MPI, .OMP and .cuda (GPU)

  • 18.x modules

    • available only for students and employees of Charles University
    • amber-18-intel compiled by Intel Compiler with OpenMPI support (.MPI suffixes), including pmemd.gem (preferred non-GPU variant)
    • amber-18 compiled by GCC with OpenMPI support (.MPI suffixes)
    • amber-18-gpu-upd17 activates binaries for GPU version (update 17) compiled by IntelCDK with OpenMPI parallel support (.cuda and .cuda.MPI suffixes)
    • amber-18-gpu activates binaries for GPU version (update 14) compiled by IntelCDK with OpenMPI parallel support (.cuda and .cuda.MPI suffixes), does not support GPUs with CUDA capability 8.0 or higher

  • 16.x modules

    • available to all MetaCentrum users
    • amber-16-gpu activates all binaries, not only GPU version (even parallel and nonparallel versions, distinguished by suffixes .MPI, .cuda, .cuda.MPI)
    • the usage of amber-16-gpu is preferred due to better optimization.

  • 14.x modules

    • available to all the MetaCentrum users
    • amber-14 is compiled by Intel compiler with the support of Intel MKL and distributed (MPI) computing (OpenMPI)
    • amber-14-gpu is compiled by Intel compiler with the support of Intel MKL, GPU computing (CUDA 6.0), and distributed (MPI) computing (OpenMPI)
    • amber-14-gpu8 activates all binaries, not only GPU version (even parallel and nonparallel versions, distinguished by suffixes .MPI, .cuda, .cuda.MPI)
    • usage of amber-14-gpu8 is preferred due to better optimization.

  • 12.x modules

    • available just for users from Masaryk University