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Abalone (molecular mechanics)

Abalone is a general purpose molecular dynamics and molecular graphics program for simulations of bio-molecules in a periodic boundary conditions in explicit (flexible SPC water model) or in implicit water models. Mainly designed to simulate the protein folding and DNA-ligand complexes in AMBER force field.

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