Research group of Dr. Wonpil Im is designated as an official developer of CHARMM

The research group of Dr. Wonpil Im has been designated as an official developer group of CHARMM (Chemistry at HARvard Macromolecular Mechanics, http://www.charmm.org), a celebrated program for macromolecular dynamics and mechanics. Its development began in the research group of Professor Martin Karplus at Harvard University and continues throughout the world with contributing developers. CHARMM performs standard molecular dynamics and energy minimization with the potential energy functions for proteins, nucleic acids, and lipids. In addition, CHARMM can be used for various chemical and conformational free energy calculations with many types of restraints. It also provides versatile analysis and manipulation tools of atomic coordinates and dynamics trajectories.

During his graduate and postdoctoral studies, Dr. Im has been involved in development and implementation of several modules in CHARMM such as:
- Poisson-Boltzmann EQuation solver (PBEQ module)
- Generalized Solvation Boundary Potentials (GSBP module)
- Generalized Born with a simple SWitching function (GBSW module)

CHARMM is available to academic users in full source form, plus extensive documentation and test input scripts, through Harvard University. A license for CHARMM can be obtained by inquiring to:

Professor Martin Karplus, Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Harvard University
12 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138