Welcome to polymerist’s documentation!

This is the documentation for the Polymer-Oriented LibrarY of Monomer Expression Rules and In-silico Synthesis Tools, or just “polymerist” for short. Polymerist is a unified set of tools for setting up molecular dynamics simulations of general organic polymer systems.

Features

  • Generating chemical information-rich monomer residue templates

  • Enumeration of all possible repeat units of a polymer ensemble given initial monomers and a target polymerization mechanism

  • Building of linear homopolymers and copolymers (both topologies and coordinates)

  • Solvating polymer systems

  • Packing of many polymer chains into melt-like boxes

  • Force-field parameterization within the OpenFF framework

  • Interfaces to semi-empirical and graph neural network-based atomic partial charge assignment

  • Reproducible simulation specification API

  • Interfaces to OpenMM for running serial simulations with different thermodynamic parameters

  • Much more!

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