Quantum chemistry common driver and databases (QCDB) and quantum chemistry engine (QCEngine): Automation and interoperability among computational chemistry programs

Smith DGA, Lolinco AT, Glick ZL, Lee J, Alenaizan A, Barnes TA, Borca CH, Di Remigio R, Dotson DL, Ehlert S, Heide AG, Herbst MF, Hermann J, Hicks CB, Horton JT, Hurtado AG, Kraus P, Kruse P, Lee SJR, Misiewicz JP, Naden LN, Ramezanghorbani F, Scheurer M, Shriber JB, Simmonett AC, Steinmetzer J, Wagner JR, Ward L, Welborn M, Altarawy D, Anwar J, Chodera JD, Dreuw A, Kulik HJ, Liu F, Martinez TJ, Matthews DA, Schaefer III HF, Sponer J, Turney JM, Wang L-P, De Silva N, King RA, Stanton JF, Gordon MS, Windus TL, Sherrill CD, Burns LA
Journal of Chemical Physics} 155:204801, 2021 [DOI]

We describe a new community-wide approach to interoperability for quantum chemistry packages that will enable large-scale applications such as next-generation machine learning for chemistry and automated force field construction for drug discovery.

Development and benchmarking of Open Force Field v1.0.0, the Parsley small molecule force field

Yudong Qiu, Daniel Smith, Simon Boothroyd, Hyesu Jang, Jeffrey Wagner, Caitlin C Bannan, Trevor Gokey, Victoria T Lim, Chaya Stern, Andrea Rizzi, Xavier Lucas, Bryon Tjanaka, Michael R Shirts, Michael Gilson, John D. Chodera, Christopher I Bayly, David Mobley, Lee-Ping Wang
Preprint ahead of publication: [chemRxiv] [force fields] [Open Force Field Initiative]

We present a new, modern small molecule force field for molecular design from the Open Force Field Initiative, a large industry-academic collaboration that focuses on open science, open data, and modern open source infrastructure.