From owner-announce@net.bio.net Thu Oct 28 02:36:00 1999 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: Jim Phillips Newsgroups: bionet.announce Subject: ANNOUNCE: NAMD 2.1b3 Date: 27 Oct 1999 20:36:51 -0700 Organization: University of Illinois Lines: 36 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: kristoff@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <3814DAC8.641F12FA@ks.uiuc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | NAMD 2.1b3 Release Announcement | | | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ October 25, 1999 The Theoretical Biophysics Group at the University of Illinois is proud to announce the public release of a new version of NAMD, a parallel, object-oriented molecular dynamics code designed for high-performance simulation of large biomolecular systems. NAMD is distributed free of charge and includes source code. NAMD development is supported by the NIH National Center for Research Resources. NAMD 2.1b3 is more stable than NAMD 2.0 and adds several new features: - Tcl scripting language interface and config file parsing. - Mollified impulse multiple timestepping method. - Faster particle mesh Ewald implementation. - Periodic boundaries for non-orthogonal cells. - New interactive molecular dynamics interface to VMD. NAMD is available from http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/namd/. The Theoretical Biophysics group encourages NAMD users to be closely involved in the development process through reporting bugs, contributing fixes, periodical surveys and via other means. Questions or comments may be directed to namd@ks.uiuc.edu. We are eager to hear from you, and thank you for using our software! .