packmol-step 2021.10.25

A SEAMM plug-in for building periodic boxes of fluid using Packmol

SEAMM Packmol Plug-in

A SEAMM plug-in for building periodic boxes of fluid using Packmol

This plug-in takes the molecule in the current system and creates a periodic box containing many copies of the molecule in order to simulate a fluid.

• Free software: BSD license

• Documentation: https://molssi-seamm.github.io/packmol_step/index.html

• Code: https://github.com/molssi-seamm/packmol_step

Features

• Multiple ways to specify final cell:

  • Size of the cubic cell and density or number of molecules or number of atoms.

  • Volume and density or number of molecules or number of atoms.

  • density and size of the cubic cell or volume or number of molecules or of atoms.

Acknowledgements

This package was created with Cookiecutter and the molssi-seamm/cookiecutter-seamm-plugin project template.

Developed by the Molecular Sciences Software Institute (MolSSI), which receives funding from the National Science Foundation under awards OAC-1547580 and CHE-2136142

History

2021.2.11 (11 February 2021)

• Updated the README file to give a better description.

• Updated the short description in setup.py to work with the new installer.

• Added keywords for better searchability.

2021.2.4 (4 February 2021)

• Updated for compatibility with the new system classes in MolSystem 2021.2.2 release.

2020.12.5 (5 December 2020)

• Internal: switching CI from TravisCI to GitHub Actions, and in the process moving documentation from ReadTheDocs to GitHub Pages where it is consolidated with the main SEAMM documentation.

2020.11.2 (2 November 2020)

• Updated to be compatible with the new command-line argument handling.

2020.10.7 (7 October 2020)

• Added citations to be printed and stored.

2020.9.29 (29 September 2020)

• Updated to be compatible with the new system classes in MolSystem.

2020.8.1 (1 August 2020)

• Fixed bugs in the edit dialog.

0.9 (15 April 2020)

• General bug fixing and code cleanup.

• Part of release of all modules.

0.7.0 (17 December 2019)

• General clean-up of code and output.

• Part of release of all modules.

v0.3.0 (27 August 2019)

• First running version with reasonable output.

0.2.0 (13 August 2019)

• First release on PyPI.