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</style><table class="infobox vevent"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above summary">MacroModel</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Programmer" title="Programmer">Developer(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Schr%C3%B6dinger_(company)" class="mw-redirect" title="Schrödinger (company)">Schrödinger, LLC</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Initial release</th><td class="infobox-data">1990<span style="display:none">&nbsp;(<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1990</span>)</span></td></tr><tr style="display: none;"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Software_release_life_cycle" title="Software release life cycle">Stable release</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="margin:0px;">2021-3
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</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Operating_system" title="Operating system">Operating system</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Linux" title="Linux">Linux</a>, <a href="Microsoft_Windows" title="Microsoft Windows">Windows</a>, <a href="MacOS" title="MacOS">macOS</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Computing_platform" title="Computing platform">Platform</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="X64" class="mw-redirect" title="X64">x64</a>, <a href="GPGPU" class="mw-redirect" title="GPGPU">GPGPU</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Available in</th><td class="infobox-data">English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Software_categories#Categorization_approaches" title="Software categories">Type</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Computational_chemistry" title="Computational chemistry">Computational chemistry</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Software_license" title="Software license">License</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Proprietary_software" title="Proprietary software">Proprietary</a>, <a href="Commercial_software" title="Commercial software">Commercial software</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.schrodinger.com/products/macromodel">www<wbr>.schrodinger<wbr>.com<wbr>/products<wbr>/macromodel</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p><b>MacroModel</b> is a computer program for <a href="Molecular_modelling" title="Molecular modelling">molecular modelling</a> of <a href="Organic_compound" title="Organic compound">organic compounds</a> and <a href="Biopolymer" title="Biopolymer">biopolymers</a>. It features various <a href="Force_field_(chemistry)" title="Force field (chemistry)">chemistry force fields</a>, plus energy minimizing algorithms, to predict <a href="Molecular_geometry" title="Molecular geometry">geometry</a> and relative <a href="Conformational_isomerism" class="mw-redirect" title="Conformational isomerism">conformational</a> energies of <a href="Molecule" title="Molecule">molecules</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Mohamadi_1990_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mohamadi_1990-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> MacroModel is maintained by <a href="Schr%C3%B6dinger_(company)" class="mw-redirect" title="Schrödinger (company)">Schrödinger, LLC</a>.
</p><p>It performs simulations in the framework of <a href="Classical_mechanics" title="Classical mechanics">classical mechanics</a>, also termed <i><a href="Molecular_mechanics" title="Molecular mechanics">molecular mechanics</a></i>, and can perform <a href="Molecular_dynamics" title="Molecular dynamics">molecular dynamics</a> simulations to model systems at finite temperatures using <a href="Stochastic_dynamics" class="mw-redirect" title="Stochastic dynamics">stochastic dynamics</a> and mixed <a href="Monte_Carlo_method" title="Monte Carlo method">Monte Carlo</a> algorithms. <i>MacroModel</i> supports <a href="Microsoft_Windows" title="Microsoft Windows">Windows</a>, <a href="Linux" title="Linux">Linux</a>, <a href="MacOS" title="MacOS">macOS</a>, <a href="Silicon_Graphics" title="Silicon Graphics">Silicon Graphics</a> (SGI) <a href="IRIX" title="IRIX">IRIX</a>, and <a href="IBM_AIX" title="IBM AIX">IBM AIX</a>.
</p><p>The Macromodel software package was first been described in the scientific literature in 1990,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and has been subsequently acquired by Schrödinger, Inc. in 2000.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<ul><li><a href="Implicit_solvation" title="Implicit solvation">Implicit solvation</a> (continuum solvation) model, Generalized Born model augmented with the hydrophobic solvent accessible surface area (SA) term (GBSA)<sup id="cite_ref-Still_1990_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Still_1990-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-pmid18422307_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pmid18422307-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><a href="Force_field_(chemistry)" title="Force field (chemistry)">Force fields</a>: MM2, MM3, <a href="AMBER" title="AMBER">AMBER</a>, <a href="Merck_Molecular_Force_Field" class="mw-redirect" title="Merck Molecular Force Field">Merck Molecular Force Field</a> (MMFF), <a href="OPLS" title="OPLS">OPLS</a></li>
<li><a href="Molecular_dynamics" title="Molecular dynamics">Molecular dynamics</a></li>
<li><a href="Free_energy_perturbation" class="mw-redirect" title="Free energy perturbation">Free energy perturbation</a></li></ul></div>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Known_version_history">Known version history</h2></div>
<ul><li>2013: version 10.0</li>
<li>2012: version 9.9.2</li>
<li>2011: version 9.9.1</li>
<li>2010: version 9.8</li>
<li>2009: version 9.7</li>
<li>2008: version 9.6</li>
<li>2007: version 9.5</li>
<li>2006: version 9.1</li>
<li>2005: version 9.0</li>
<li>2004: version 8.5</li>
<li>2003: version 8.1</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div>
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<ul><li><a href="Comparison_of_nucleic_acid_simulation_software" title="Comparison of nucleic acid simulation software">Comparison of nucleic acid simulation software</a></li>
<li><a href="Comparison_of_force_field_implementations" class="mw-redirect" title="Comparison of force field implementations">Comparison of force field implementations</a></li>
<li><a href="List_of_software_for_molecular_mechanics_modeling" class="mw-redirect" title="List of software for molecular mechanics modeling">List of software for molecular mechanics modeling</a></li>
<li><a href="List_of_software_for_Monte_Carlo_molecular_modeling" title="List of software for Monte Carlo molecular modeling">List of software for Monte Carlo molecular modeling</a></li>
<li><a href="List_of_protein_structure_prediction_software" title="List of protein structure prediction software">List of protein structure prediction software</a></li>
<li><a href="Molecular_design_software" title="Molecular design software">Molecular design software</a></li>
<li><a href="Molecular_modelling" title="Molecular modelling">Molecular modelling</a></li>
<li><a href="Molecule_editor" title="Molecule editor">Molecule editor</a></li>
<li><a href="Abalone_(molecular_mechanics)" title="Abalone (molecular mechanics)">Abalone (molecular mechanics)</a></li>
<li><a href="Ascalaph_Designer" title="Ascalaph Designer">Ascalaph Designer</a></li>
<li><a href="CHARMM" title="CHARMM">CHARMM</a></li>
<li><a href="GROMACS" title="GROMACS">GROMACS</a></li>
<li><a href="MDynaMix" title="MDynaMix">MDynaMix</a></li>
<li><a href="NAMD" title="NAMD">NAMD</a></li>
<li><a href="Tinker_(software)" title="Tinker (software)">Tinker (software)</a></li></ul></div>
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</style><cite id="CITEREFMohamadiRichardGuidaLiskamp1990" class="citation journal cs1">Mohamadi F, Richard NG, Guida WC, Liskamp R, Lipton M, Caufield C, Chang G, Hendrickson T, Still WC (May 1990). "MacroModel - an Integrated Software System for Modeling Organic and Bioorganic Molecules Using Molecular Mechanics". <i>J. Comput. Chem</i>. <b>11</b> (4): <span class="nowrap">440–</span>467. <a href="Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1002%2Fjcc.540110405">10.1002/jcc.540110405</a>.</cite></span>
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