Documentation

Full documentation with installation instructions, technical details and examples can be found in Read the Docs.

Don't miss out the latest hands-on tutorials from our YouTube channel!

Recommended installation and update guide

In a nutshell, AQME and its dependencies are installed/updated as follows:

1. Install using conda-forge: conda install -c conda-forge aqme
2. Update to the latest version: pip install aqme --upgrade

Developers and help desk

List of main developers and contact emails:

• Juan V. Alegre-Requena, main developer of the CSEARCH, QCORR, QPREP and QDESCP modules. Contact: jv.alegre@csic.es
• Shree Sowndarya S. V., main developer of the CSEARCH, CMIN, QDESCP and VISMOL modules. Contact: svss@colostate.edu
• Turki Alturaifi, worked in benchmarking the parameters for RDKit-based conformer generation. Contact: tma53@pitt.edu
• Raúl Pérez-Soto, worked in refactoring the code and creating the documentation. Contact: Raul.Perez_Soto@colostate.edu
• Robert S. Paton, research group supervisor and code advisor. Contact: robert.paton@colostate.edu

For suggestions and improvements of the code (greatly appreciated!), please reach out through the issues and pull requests options of Github.

License

AQME is freely available under an MIT License

Reference

If you use any of the AQME modules, please include this citation:
Alegre-Requena, J. V.; Sowndarya, S.; Pérez-Soto, R.; Alturaifi, T.; Paton, R. AQME: Automated Quantum Mechanical Environments for Researchers and Educators. Wiley Interdiscip. Rev. Comput. Mol. Sci. 2023, 13, e1663. (DOI: 10.1002/wcms.1663).

Additionally, please include the corresponding references for the following programs:

• If you used CSEARCH with RDKit methods or from SMILES: RDKit
• If you used CSEARCH with CREST methods: CREST
• If you used CMIN with xTB: xTB
• If you used CMIN with ANI: ANI
• If you used QCORR: cclib
• If you used QDESCP with xTB: xTB