OMMProtocol: A Command Line Application to Launch Molecular Dynamics Simulations with OpenMM

OpenMM is a free and GPU-accelerated Molecular Dynamics (MD) engine written as a layered and reusable library. This approach allows maximum flexibility to configure MD simulations and develop new molecular mechanics (MM) methods. However, this powerful versatility comes at a cost: the user is expected to write Python scripts to run a simulation. OMMProtocol aims to fill this gap by stitching OpenMM and additional third-party modules together, providing an easy way to create an input file to configure a full multi-stage simulation protocol, from minimization to equilibration and production. OMMProtocol is LGPL-licensed and freely available at https://github.com/insilichem/ommprotocol.