Meet El Agente, an autonomous AI for performing computational chemistry
By minimizing the technical barriers traditionally associated with computational chemistry, El Agente is a step toward more inclusive, accessible, and scalable scientific research worldwide.
https://acceleration.utoronto.ca/news/meet-el-agente-an-autonomous-ai-for-performing-computational-chemistry
By minimizing the technical barriers traditionally associated with computational chemistry, El Agente is a step toward more inclusive, accessible, and scalable scientific research worldwide.
https://acceleration.utoronto.ca/news/meet-el-agente-an-autonomous-ai-for-performing-computational-chemistry
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📢 Online Conference: "From Theory to Application"
📅 Dates: 24–26 June 2025
🌐 Format: Webinar (online, free participation)
The Organizing Committee warmly invites researchers, students, and professionals from academia and industry to join the first edition of the conference "From Theory to Application: Wrocław Meetings on Computational and Experimental Sciences", organized by the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Wrocław.
The event will feature lectures, poster sessions, and flash presentations (special sessions for young researchers). We encourage poster submissions at the time of registration.
Topics covered include:
🔹 Computational approaches in drug design
🔹 Electronic structure and compound design with specific physicochemical properties
🔹 Relationship between chemical structure and practical applications
🔹 Magnetic properties and their everyday applications
🔹 Artificial Intelligence applications in material science and biologically active compounds
🔹 Modern methods for macro-system modeling
🔹 Designing modern materials via in silico methods
🔗 Details and registration: makromol.uwr.edu.pl/en
📅 Dates: 24–26 June 2025
🌐 Format: Webinar (online, free participation)
The Organizing Committee warmly invites researchers, students, and professionals from academia and industry to join the first edition of the conference "From Theory to Application: Wrocław Meetings on Computational and Experimental Sciences", organized by the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Wrocław.
The event will feature lectures, poster sessions, and flash presentations (special sessions for young researchers). We encourage poster submissions at the time of registration.
Topics covered include:
🔹 Computational approaches in drug design
🔹 Electronic structure and compound design with specific physicochemical properties
🔹 Relationship between chemical structure and practical applications
🔹 Magnetic properties and their everyday applications
🔹 Artificial Intelligence applications in material science and biologically active compounds
🔹 Modern methods for macro-system modeling
🔹 Designing modern materials via in silico methods
🔗 Details and registration: makromol.uwr.edu.pl/en
From Theory to Application
Strona Główna EN - From Theory to Application
Wrocław Meetings on Computational and Experimental Sciences 24 – 26.06.2025 Uniwersity of Wrocław, Faculty of Chemistry The first international conference ennoscriptd: “From Theory to Application – Wroclaw Meetings on Computational and Experimental Sciences”…
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MolSSI Launches Credentialed Online Quantum Chemistry Course
The Molecular Sciences Software Institute (MolSSI) has introduced a new credentialed online course in quantum chemistry simulation. This course is designed to expand the skillsets of early-career graduate students and researchers in the field.
https://molssi.org/learn-quantum-chemistry-simulation-with-molssis-new-credentialed-online-course/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
The Molecular Sciences Software Institute (MolSSI) has introduced a new credentialed online course in quantum chemistry simulation. This course is designed to expand the skillsets of early-career graduate students and researchers in the field.
https://molssi.org/learn-quantum-chemistry-simulation-with-molssis-new-credentialed-online-course/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
MolSSI
The Molecular Sciences Software Institution
This is the official website for MolSSI
🧬 63rd Hands-on Workshop on Computational Biophysics
📅 August 4–8, 2025
📍 Auburn University, Alabama, USA
🔗 https://www.tcbg.illinois.edu/Training/Workshop/Auburn2025
The Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group (TCBG), NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Visualization, is pleased to announce its upcoming training event.
🖥 Workshop topics include:
• Molecular dynamics with NAMD
• Biomolecular visualization with VMD
• Nanotechnology simulations using ARBD
• Introductory modeling with QwikMD
📚 Format:
• Morning lectures on theoretical foundations
• Afternoon hands-on sessions with guided tutorials
• Flash talks from participants
🎯 Who should apply:
Graduate students, postdocs, and researchers in computational or biophysical sciences. Experimentalists and newcomers are especially encouraged.
✅ No registration fee. Participants are responsible for housing and travel.
💻 Personal laptops required.
👥 Enrollment limited to 35 participants.
🗓 Application deadline: June 20, 2025
📩 Notification of acceptance by: June 27, 2025
✔️ Confirmation deadline: July 4, 2025
More info and application:
🔗 https://www.tcbg.illinois.edu/Training/Workshop/Auburn2025
📧 Questions: workshop+questions@ks.uiuc.edu
📅 August 4–8, 2025
📍 Auburn University, Alabama, USA
🔗 https://www.tcbg.illinois.edu/Training/Workshop/Auburn2025
The Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group (TCBG), NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Visualization, is pleased to announce its upcoming training event.
🖥 Workshop topics include:
• Molecular dynamics with NAMD
• Biomolecular visualization with VMD
• Nanotechnology simulations using ARBD
• Introductory modeling with QwikMD
📚 Format:
• Morning lectures on theoretical foundations
• Afternoon hands-on sessions with guided tutorials
• Flash talks from participants
🎯 Who should apply:
Graduate students, postdocs, and researchers in computational or biophysical sciences. Experimentalists and newcomers are especially encouraged.
✅ No registration fee. Participants are responsible for housing and travel.
💻 Personal laptops required.
👥 Enrollment limited to 35 participants.
🗓 Application deadline: June 20, 2025
📩 Notification of acceptance by: June 27, 2025
✔️ Confirmation deadline: July 4, 2025
More info and application:
🔗 https://www.tcbg.illinois.edu/Training/Workshop/Auburn2025
📧 Questions: workshop+questions@ks.uiuc.edu
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2208.12590v1.pdf
3.3 MB
Ab initio quantum chemistry with neural-network wavefunctions
Deep learning methods outperform human capabilities in pattern recognition and data processing problems and now have an increasingly important role in scientific discovery. A key application of machine learning in molecular science is to learn potential energy surfaces or force fields from ab initio solutions of the electronic Schrödinger equation using data sets obtained with density functional theory, coupled cluster or other quantum chemistry (QC) methods. In this Review, we discuss a complementary approach using machine learning to aid the direct solution of QC problems from first principles. Specifically, we focus on quantum Monte Carlo methods that use neural-network ansatzes to solve the electronic Schrödinger equation, in first and second quantization, computing ground and excited states and generalizing over multiple nuclear configurations.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41570-023-00516-8
Deep learning methods outperform human capabilities in pattern recognition and data processing problems and now have an increasingly important role in scientific discovery. A key application of machine learning in molecular science is to learn potential energy surfaces or force fields from ab initio solutions of the electronic Schrödinger equation using data sets obtained with density functional theory, coupled cluster or other quantum chemistry (QC) methods. In this Review, we discuss a complementary approach using machine learning to aid the direct solution of QC problems from first principles. Specifically, we focus on quantum Monte Carlo methods that use neural-network ansatzes to solve the electronic Schrödinger equation, in first and second quantization, computing ground and excited states and generalizing over multiple nuclear configurations.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41570-023-00516-8
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ORCA 6.1 will be released June 17th
With lots of new features!
- Analytic Raman intensities
- Coupled cluster level chemical shieldings
- Coupled cluster level g-tensors
- Open shell XAS calculations with EOM/STEOM
- Lots of new LED capabilities
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7328342996616175616/
With lots of new features!
- Analytic Raman intensities
- Coupled cluster level chemical shieldings
- Coupled cluster level g-tensors
- Open shell XAS calculations with EOM/STEOM
- Lots of new LED capabilities
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7328342996616175616/
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🧪 VeloxChem
Next-generation quantum chemistry software
VeloxChem is a Python-based open-source quantum chemistry package designed for both interactive use and high-performance computing (HPC) environments. It supports Jupyter notebook integration and is optimized for modern and future hardware architectures.
⚙️ Key Features
• Kohn–Sham Density Functional Theory (DFT)
• Time-Dependent DFT (TDDFT)
• Complex Polarization Propagator (CPP)
• Linear, quadratic, and cubic response functions
• Potential Energy Surface (PES) exploration (ground/excited states)
• UV/Vis, X-ray absorption (XAS, XPS), ECD, TPA spectra
• Infrared (IR), Raman, and Resonance Raman Spectroscopy (RRS)
• Classical methods: MM, IM, MD, EVB
• Conformational search and polarizable embedding (PE)
• Localized properties (LoProp, RESP)
📚 Why VeloxChem?
• Enables interactive teaching of quantum chemistry
• Facilitates rapid method development
• Ideal for building simulation workflows and data-driven research
🔗 Documentation and resources:
👉 https://veloxchem.org/docs/intro.html
#VeloxChem #QuantumChemistry #DFT #TDDFT #Python #HPC #ComputationalChemistry #OpenSource #eChem #MolecularModeling
Next-generation quantum chemistry software
VeloxChem is a Python-based open-source quantum chemistry package designed for both interactive use and high-performance computing (HPC) environments. It supports Jupyter notebook integration and is optimized for modern and future hardware architectures.
⚙️ Key Features
• Kohn–Sham Density Functional Theory (DFT)
• Time-Dependent DFT (TDDFT)
• Complex Polarization Propagator (CPP)
• Linear, quadratic, and cubic response functions
• Potential Energy Surface (PES) exploration (ground/excited states)
• UV/Vis, X-ray absorption (XAS, XPS), ECD, TPA spectra
• Infrared (IR), Raman, and Resonance Raman Spectroscopy (RRS)
• Classical methods: MM, IM, MD, EVB
• Conformational search and polarizable embedding (PE)
• Localized properties (LoProp, RESP)
📚 Why VeloxChem?
• Enables interactive teaching of quantum chemistry
• Facilitates rapid method development
• Ideal for building simulation workflows and data-driven research
🔗 Documentation and resources:
👉 https://veloxchem.org/docs/intro.html
#VeloxChem #QuantumChemistry #DFT #TDDFT #Python #HPC #ComputationalChemistry #OpenSource #eChem #MolecularModeling
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☝️ Read the paper: https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/wcms.1457
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews
VeloxChem: A Python‐driven density‐functional theory program for spectroscopy simulations in high‐performance computing environments
With a high degree of code vectorization and parallelization, the VeloxChem program provides a powerful tool to calculate absorptive and dispersive parts of real and complex linear response functions...
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Open Access Review
Advancing Covalent Ligand and Drug Discovery beyond Cysteine
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.chemrev.5c00001
Advancing Covalent Ligand and Drug Discovery beyond Cysteine
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.chemrev.5c00001
ACS Publications
Advancing Covalent Ligand and Drug Discovery beyond Cysteine
Targeting intractable proteins remains a key challenge in drug discovery, as these proteins often lack well-defined binding pockets or possess shallow surfaces not readily addressed by traditional drug design. Covalent chemistry has emerged as a powerful…
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Some sources say imaginary modes with |ν| < 200 cm⁻¹ can be ignored. Your B3LYP/def2-TZVP optimization of a 50-atom molecule reports a single mode at −45 cm⁻¹. What is the prudent next action?
Anonymous Quiz
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Displace ±0.05 Å along the mode and re-optimize with tighter thresholds
14%
Accept the structure; −45 cm⁻¹ is within the ‘don’t bother’ band
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Use an ultrafine grid and recompute the frequencies only
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Run 200 steepest-descent steps in Cartesian coordinates
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Freeze the atoms in the mode and do a single-point energy