Comparison of nucleic acid simulation software
This is a list of notable computer programs that are used for nucleic acids simulations.
Name
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Model build
Min
MD
MC
REM
Crt
Int
Exp
Imp
Lig
GPU
Comments
License
Website
Abalone
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
DNA , proteins , ligands
Free
Agile Molecule
AMBER [ 1]
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes[ 2]
AMBER force field
Proprietary
ambermd.org
Ascalaph Designer
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
AMBER
Free, GPL
biomolecular-modeling.com
CHARMM
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
CHARMM force field
Proprietary
charmm.org
CP2K
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Free, GPL
cp2k.org
Forecaster (Fitted)[ 3]
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Small molecule docking to nucleic acids with water placement
Free for academia, Proprietary
Molecular Forecaster Archived 2019-07-09 at the Wayback Machine
ICM[ 4]
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Global optimization
Proprietary
Molsoft
JUMNA[ 5]
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Proprietary
MDynaMix [ 6]
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Common MD
Free, GPL
Stockholm University
Molecular Operating Environment (MOE)
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Proprietary
Chemical Computing Group
Nucleic Acid Builder (NAB)[ 7]
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Generates models for unusual DNA, RNA
Free, GPL
New Jersey University
NAnoscale Molecular Dynamics (NAMD )
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Fast, parallel MD, CUDA
Free
University of Illinois
oxDNA[ 8] [ 9]
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Coarse-grained models of DNA, RNA
Free, GPL
dna.physics.ox.ac.uk
LAMMPS CG-DNA
QRNAS [ 10]
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
No
High resolution refinement of models of RNA , DNA and hybrids using AMBER force field .
Free, GPL
Genesilico Github
SimRNA[ 11]
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Coarse grained modeling of RNA
Free for Academic, Proprietary
Genesilico
SimRNAweb[ 12]
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Coarse grained modeling of RNA
Free
Genesilico
YASARA
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Interactive simulations
Proprietary
www.YASARA.org
See also
References
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^ Boniecki, Michal J.; Lach, Grzegorz; Dawson, Wayne K.; Tomala, Konrad; Lukasz, Pawel; Soltysinski, Tomasz; Rother, Kristian M.; Bujnicki, Janusz M. (2015-12-19). "SimRNA: a coarse-grained method for RNA folding simulations and 3D structure prediction" . Nucleic Acids Research . 44 (7): e63. doi :10.1093/nar/gkv1479 . ISSN 0305-1048 . PMC 4838351 . PMID 26687716 .
^ Magnus, Marcin; Boniecki, Michał J.; Dawson, Wayne; Bujnicki, Janusz M. (2016-04-19). "SimRNAweb: a web server for RNA 3D structure modeling with optional restraints" . Nucleic Acids Research . 44 (W1): W315 – W319 . doi :10.1093/nar/gkw279 . ISSN 0305-1048 . PMC 4987879 . PMID 27095203 .