alchemlyb 0.4.1

the simple alchemistry library

alchemlyb: the simple alchemistry library
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**alchemlyb** makes alchemical free energy calculations easier to do
by leveraging the full power and flexibility of the PyData stack. It
includes:

1. Parsers for extracting raw data from output files of common
molecular dynamics engines such as `GROMACS`_, `AMBER`_, `NAMD`_
and `other simulation codes`_.

2. Subsamplers for obtaining uncorrelated samples from timeseries data.

3. Estimators for obtaining free energies directly from this data, using
best-practices approaches for multistate Bennett acceptance ratio (MBAR)
[Shirts2008]_ and thermodynamic integration (TI).

In particular, it uses internally the excellent `pymbar
<http://pymbar.readthedocs.io/>`_ library for performing MBAR and extracting
independent, equilibrated samples [Chodera2016]_.

.. [Shirts2008] Shirts, M.R., and Chodera, J.D. (2008). Statistically optimal
analysis of samples from multiple equilibrium states. The Journal of Chemical
Physics 129, 124105.

.. [Chodera2016] Chodera, J.D. (2016). A Simple Method for Automated
Equilibration Detection in Molecular Simulations. Journal of Chemical Theory
and Computation 12, 1799–1805.

.. _GROMACS: http://www.gromacs.org/

.. _AMBER: http://ambermd.org/

.. _NAMD: http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/namd/

.. _`other simulation codes`: https://alchemlyb.readthedocs.io/en/latest/parsing.html

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