Fafoom is a tool for sampling the conformational space of organic molecules. Fafoom is intended to work with FHI-aims (Fritz Haber Institute ab initio molecular simulations package).
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the paper "First-principles molecular structure search with a genetic algorithm" is now published in Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling; DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.5b00243
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a new branch targeting the implementation of a further degree of freedom ('orientation') has been created
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functionality of the tool:
- Python (used for testing: 2.7.6) - Python3 is not supported!
- Numpy (used for testing: 1.8.2)
- RDKit (used for testing: Release_2015_03_1)
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first-principles methods:
- (recommended) FHI-aims (Fritz Haber Institute ab initio molecular simulations package)
- (alternative) NWChem (NWChem: Open Source High-Performance Computational Chemistry)
- (alternative) ORCA (- An ab initio, DFT and semiempirical SCF-MO package -)
git clone https://github.com/adrianasupady/fafoom
import fafoom
An implementation of a genetic algorithm is provided in the examples folder. Depending on the used parameter file following genetic algorithm based searches can be run:
- parameters_aims.txt for first-principles (FHI-aims required)
- parameters_ff.txt for force fields (force fields accessed from RDKit)
- parameters_nwchem.txt for first-principles via NWChem (NWChem required)
- parameters_orca.txt for first-principles via ORCA (ORCA required)
Get familiar with the provided manual to learn more about the tool and the parameters.
Development goals:
- flexible formulation of the scoring function, e.g. allowing for optimizing a user-defined property
- adding more kinds of degrees of freedom, e.g. orientation of a molecule
- adding wrappers for different molecular simulations packages
Comments, feedback or development contributions are always welcome!
Fafoom is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
Fafoom is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with fafoom. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
Copyright 2015 Adriana Supady