How to cite Amber
When citing Amber20 or AmberTools20 please use the following:
D.A. Case, K. Belfon, I.Y. Ben-Shalom, S.R. Brozell, D.S. Cerutti, T.E.
Cheatham, III, V.W.D. Cruzeiro, T.A. Darden, R.E. Duke, G. Giambasu, M.K.
Gilson, H. Gohlke, A.W. Goetz, R. Harris, S. Izadi, S.A. Izmailov, K.
Kasavajhala, A. Kovalenko, R. Krasny, T. Kurtzman, T.S. Lee, S. LeGrand,
P. Li, C. Lin, J. Liu, T. Luchko, R. Luo, V. Man, K.M. Merz, Y. Miao, O.
Mikhailovskii, G. Monard, H. Nguyen, A. Onufriev, F.Pan, S. Pantano, R.
Qi, D.R. Roe, A. Roitberg, C. Sagui, S. Schott-Verdugo, J. Shen, C.
Simmerling, N.R.Skrynnikov, J. Smith, J. Swails, R.C. Walker, J. Wang,
L. Wilson, R.M. Wolf, X. Wu, Y. Xiong, Y. Xue, D.M. York and P.A. Kollman
(2020), AMBER 2020, University of California, San Francisco.
Also, please visit the contributors page for
more complete information about who has done what over the years.
A good general overview of the Amber codes can be found in:
R. Salomon-Ferrer, D.A. Case, R.C. Walker. (2013) "An overview of the Amber
biomolecular simulation package." WIREs Comput. Mol. Sci. 3,
198-210.
(PDF)
D.A. Case, T.E. Cheatham, III, T. Darden, H. Gohlke, R. Luo, K.M. Merz, Jr.,
A. Onufriev, C. Simmerling, B. Wang and R. Woods. (2005) "The Amber
biomolecular simulation programs." J. Computat. Chem. 26,
1668-1688.
(link)
An overview of the Amber protein force fields, and how they were
developed, can be found in:
J.W. Ponder and D.A. Case. (2003) "Force fields for protein simulations."
Adv. Prot. Chem. 66, 27-85.
(PDF)
Details on the ff14SB and ff19SB protein force fields are here:
C.Tian, K. Kasavajhala, K. A. A. Belfon, L. Raguette, H. Huang, A. N. Migues
J. Bickel, Y. Wang, J. Pincay, Q. Wu and C. Simmerling. (2019) "ff19SB:
Amino-Acid-Specific Protein Backbone Paramters Trained against Quantum
Mechanics Energy Surfaces in Solution." J. Chem. Theory Comput.16,
528-552.
(link)
J.A. Maier, C. Martinez, K. Kasavajhala, L. Wickstrom, K.E. Hauser and C.
Simmerling. (2015) "ff14SB: Improving the accuracy of protein side chain and
backbone parameters from ff99SB." J. Chem. Theory Comput. 11,
3696-3713.
(link)
Similar information for nucleic acids is given by:
T.E. Cheatham, III and D.A. Case. (2013) "Twenty-five years of nucleic acid
simulations." Biopolymers, 99, 969-977.
(link)
For information on the GPU-accelerated code, please see:
A.W. Goetz, M.J. Williamson, D. Xu, D. Poole, S. Le Grand, and R.C. Walker.
(2012) "Routine microsecond molecular dynamics simulations with AMBER on
GPUs. 1. Generalized Born." J. Chem. Theory Comput. 8,
1542-1555. (link)
R. Salomon-Ferrer, A.W. Goetz, D. Poole; S. Le Grand, and R.C. Walker. (2013)
"Routine microsecond molecular dynamics simulations with AMBER on GPUs. 2.
Explicit solvent Particle Mesh Ewald." J. Chem. Theory Comput.
9, 3878-3888.
(link)
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