AMBER
Description
Amber is a suite of biomolecular simulation programs. The term "Amber" refers to two things. First, it is a set of molecular mechanical force fields for the simulation of biomolecules; these force fields are in the public domain, and are used in a variety of simulation programs. Second, it is a package of molecular simulation programs which includes source code and demos.
Amber is distributed in two parts: AmberTools24 and Amber24. See the Download Amber link for information on how to download the code.
Amber is developed in an active collaboration of David Case at Rutgers University, Tom Cheatham at the University of Utah, Ray Luo at UC Irvine, Ken Merz at Michigan State University, Maria Nagan at Stony Brook, Dan Roe at NIH, Adrian Roitberg at the University of Florida, Carlos Simmerling at Stony Brook, Junmei Wang at the University of Pittsburgh, Darrin York at Rutgers University, and many others. Amber was originally developed under the leadership of Peter Kollman.
A good general overview of the Amber codes can be found in:
R. Salomon-Ferrer, D.A. Case, R.C. Walker. An overview of the Amber biomolecular simulation package. WIREs Comput. Mol. Sci. 3, 198-210 (2013). (PDF)
D.A. Case, T.E. Cheatham, III, T. Darden, H. Gohlke, R. Luo, K.M. Merz, Jr., A. Onufriev, C. Simmerling, B. Wang and R. Woods. The Amber biomolecular simulation programs. J. Computat. Chem. 26, 1668-1688 (2005).
D.A. Case, H.M. Aktulga, K. Belfon, D.S. Cerutti, G.A. Cisneros, V.W.D. Cruzeiro, N. Forouzesh, T.J. Giese, A.W. Götz, H. Gohlke, S. Izadi, K. Kasavajhala, M.C. Kaymak, E. King, T. Kurtzman, T.-S. Lee, P. Li, J. Liu, T. Luchko, R. Luo, M. Manathunga, M.R. Machado, H.M. Nguyen, K.A. O’Hearn, A.V. Onufriev, F. Pan, S. Pantano, R. Qi, A. Rahnamoun, A. Risheh, S. Schott-Verdugo, A. Shajan, J. Swails, J. Wang, H. Wei, X. Wu, Y. Wu, S. Zhang, S. Zhao, Q. Zhu, T.E. Cheatham III, D.R. Roe, A. Roitberg, C. Simmerling, D.M. York, M.C. Nagan*, and K.M. Merz Jr.* AmberTools. J. Chem. Inf. Model. 63, 6183-6191 (2023).
See https://ambermd.org/AmberModels.php for information about force fields.
Required Modules
For more details on specific modules required for different versions of AMBER, run module spider amber
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System Variables
- AMBERHOME
- HPC_AMBER_DIR - installation directory
- HPC_AMBER_BIN - executable program directory
- HPC_AMBER_LIB - library directory
- HPC_AMBER_INC - include file directory
Citation
Serial Version
If you publish research that uses Amber you have to cite it as follows:
D.A. Case, T.A. Darden, T.E. Cheatham, III, C.L. Simmerling, J. Wang, R.E. Duke, R. Luo, R.C. Walker, W. Zhang, K.M. Merz, B. Roberts, S. Hayik, A. Roitberg, G. Seabra, J. Swails, A.W. Goetz, I. Kolossvai, K.F. Wong, F. Paesani, J. Vanicek, R.M. Wolf, J. Liu, X. Wu, S.R. Brozell, T. Steinbrecher, H. Gohlke, Q. Cai, X. Ye, J. Wang, M.-J. Hsieh, G. Cui, D.R. Roe, D.H. Mathews, M.G. Seetin, R. Salomon-Ferrer, C. Sagui, V. Babin, T. Luchko, S. Gusarov, A. Kovalenko, and P.A. Kollman (2012), AMBER 12, University of California, San Francisco.
GPU Version
If you make use of any of this GPU support in your work please use the following citations:
Andreas W. Goetz; Mark J. Williamson; Dong Xu; Duncan Poole; Scott Le Grand; & Ross C. Walker* "Routine microsecond molecular dynamics simulations with AMBER - Part I: Generalized Born", J. Chem. Theory Comput., 2012, 8 (5), pp 1542-1555 , DOI: 10.1021/ct200909j
D.A. Case, T.A. Darden, T.E. Cheatham, III, C.L. Simmerling, J. Wang, R.E. Duke, R. Luo, R.C. Walker, W. Zhang, K.M. Merz, B. Roberts, S. Hayik, A. Roitberg, G. Seabra, J. Swails, A.W. Goetz, I. Kolossvai, K.F. Wong, F. Paesani, J. Vanicek, R.M. Wolf, J. Liu, X. Wu, S.R. Brozell, T. Steinbrecher, H. Gohlke, Q. Cai, X. Ye, J. Wang, M.-J. Hsieh, G. Cui, D.R. Roe, D.H. Mathews, M.G. Seetin, R. Salomon-Ferrer, C. Sagui, V. Babin, T. Luchko, S. Gusarov, A. Kovalenko, and P.A. Kollman (2012), AMBER 12, University of California, San Francisco.