Atomes is a Free (Open Source) cross-platform software licensed under the terms of the Affero GPL v3+ license. Atoms is a toolbox developed to analyze, to visualize and to create/edit three-dimensional atomistic models. It offers a workspace that allows to have many projects opened simultaneously.
The different projects in the workspace can exchange data: analysis results, atomic coordinates ... Atomes also provides an advanced input preparation system for further calculations using well known molecular dynamics codes:
To prepare the input filles for these calculations is likely to be the key, and most complicated step towards MD simulations. Atomes offers a user-friendly assistant to help and guide the user step by step to achieve this crucial step.
- Analysis of 3D atomistic model: neutron and x-rays diffraction, rings statistics, chain statistics, bond order, MSD ...
- Visualization: measures, coordination polyhedras, advanced coloring, advanced design
- Edition: molecular library, crystal builder, cell edition, surface creation and passivation ...
- MD input preparation:
To build Atomes standard version:
make atomes
To build Atomes debug version:
make debug
The latter is for debugging purposes only, also prints extra information at runtime to help with the process.
Atomes uses the GTK lib for the GUI, by default GTK3 is used, however it is possible to build the GTK4 version (beta), to do that edit the Makefile
and change:
GTKV = 3
to
GTKV = 4
Here are some issues with GTK4 that cannot be sovled for the time being:
- No way to use Pango markups in menu items with sub-menus (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/5946)
- No way to attach widget to menu items not in the top level of the menu (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/5955)
By default Atomes uses OpenMP to parallelize several calculations over the CPU cores.
It is possible to turn this off, and to build a serial version of Atomes, to do that edit the Makefile
and change:
OPENMP = 1
to
OPENMP =
Atomes is developed by Dr. Sébastien Le Roux, research engineer for the CNRS
Dr. Sébastien Le Roux works at the Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg IPCMS
The documenation is hosted on GitHub here: Atomes documentation
Tutorial are regrouped and hosted on GitHub here: Atomes tutorials