AMBER
Description
Amber refers to two things: a set of molecular mechanical force fields for the simulation of biomolecules (which are in the public domain, and are used in a variety of simulation programs); and a package of molecular simulation programs which includes source code and demos.
A good general overview of the Amber codes can be found in: 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).
An overview of the Amber protein force fields, and how they were developed, can be found in: J.W. Ponder and D.A. Case. Force fields for protein simulations. Adv. Prot. Chem. 66, 27-85 (2003). Similar information for nucleic acids is given by T.E. Cheatham, III and M.A. Young. Molecular dynamics simulation of nucleic acids: Successes, limitations and promise. Biopolymers 56, 232-256 (2001).
Version
The default version is Amber 12 with subversions: Amber 12.21 and AmberTools 13.23.
Amber 14 is available. Due to its license policy, users who wish to use it will need to obtain the permission from Dr. Adrian Roiberg and submit a help request at: http://support.rc.ufl.edu. You will then be added to "amber" group (as your secondary group) for accessing Amber 14.
Required Modules
Serial
- intel/2016.0.109
- amber
Example:
module load intel/2016.0.109 amber
Parallel (MPI)
- intel/2016.0.109
- openmpi/1.10.2
- amber
Example:
module load intel/2016.0.109 openmpi amber
GPU (Serial)
- intel/2016.0.109
- amber/16-cuda
Example:
module load intel/2016.0.109 amber/16-cuda
GPU (Parallel/MPI)
- intel/2016.0.109
- openmpi/1.10.2
- amber/16-cuda
Example:
module load intel/2016.0.109 openmpi amber/16-cuda
System Variables
- AMBERHOME
- HPC_{{#uppercase:Amber}}_DIR - installation directory
- HPC_{{#uppercase:Amber}}_BIN - executable program directory
- HPC_{{#uppercase:Amber}}_LIB - library directory
- HPC_{{#uppercase:Amber}}_INC - include file directory
PBS Script Examples
See the AMBER_PBS page for Amber PBS script examples.
SLURM Script Examples
See the SLURM_Scripts page for SLURM script examples.
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.