News

Announcing two new releases!Posted on 27 Oct 2020
by David Mobley, Karmen Condic-Jurkic
Open Force Field Initiative releases the latest Parsley update (OpenFF-1.3.0) and OpenFF Toolkit version 0.8.0.

Welcome, Pavan!Posted on 18 Sep 2020
by Karmen Čondić-Jurkić
We are excited to welcome Pavan Kumar Behara to our team!

Open Force Field Newsletter August 2020Posted on 28 Aug 2020
by Karmen Čondić-Jurkić
This is the first quarterly Open Force Field Newsletter released as a double issue for Q2 and Q3 2020.

Benchmark: OpenFF performance on small molecule energies and geometriesPosted on 25 Jul 2020
by David Hahn
Force Field benchmark on small molecule energies and geometries.

Lee-Ping Wang stepping down from a leadership rolePosted on 22 Jul 2020
by Karmen Condic-Jurkic
Lee-Ping Wang has decided to step down from his role as an OpenFF primary investigator and to continue his involvement as a co-investigator.

Open Force Field Consortium Virtual MeetingPosted on 23 Apr 2020
by Karmen Condic-Jurkic
The Third Open Force Field Consortium Workshop in Zoomverse on May 4-5, 2020.

Open Force Field Initiative receives NIH fundingPosted on 6 Apr 2020
by Michael Shirts
Open Force Field Initiative receives NIH funding

The Third Open Force Field Consortium WorkshopPosted on 25 Feb 2020
by Karmen Condic-Jurkic
The Third Open Force Field Consortium Workshop in Boston on May 4-5, 2020.

Webinar by Andreas Krämer: Automated Optimization Approaches for the CHARMM Lipid Force Field (Dec 17, 2019)Posted on 2 Dec 2019
by Karmen Condic-Jurkic
Andreas Krämer will talk about automated optimization of the CHARMM36 lipid force field on Dec 17 at 2 pm (ET).
The Open Force Field 1.0 small molecule force field, our first optimized force field (codename "Parsley")Posted on 10 Oct 2019
by David Mobley, Yudong Qiu, Simon Boothroyd, Lee-Ping Wang, and John Chodera
At the end of our first year, the Open Force Field Consortium releases its first optimized force field: the Open Force Field 1.0 (codename “Parsley”) small molecule force field