Section: New Results

IM-UFF: extending the Universal Force Field for interactive molecular modeling

Participants : Leonard Jaillet, Svetlana Artemova, Stephane Redon.

We have completed the development of IM-UFF (Interactive Modeling - UFF), an extension of UFF that combines the possibility to significantly modify molecular structures (as with reactive force fields) with a broad diversity of supported systems thanks to the universality of UFF. Such an extension lets the user easily build and edit molecular systems interactively while being guided by physically-based inter-atomic forces. This approach introduces weighted atom types and weighted bonds, used to update topologies and atom parameterizations at every time step of a simulation. IM-UFF has been evaluated on a large set of benchmarks and is proposed as a self-contained implementation integrated in a new module for the SAMSON software platform for computational nanoscience.

This contribution has been submitted to the Journal of Molecular Modeling.