A framework for simulations of interacting particles
Project description
atooms is a python framework for classical simulations of interacting particles. It makes it easy to develop simulation and analysis tools using an expressive language, without sacrificing efficiency. This is achieved by offloading the critical parts of the calculation to backends written in C, CUDA or Fortran.
Quick start
The goal of atooms is to provide a coherent interface to the basic objects of molecular dynamics or Monte Carlo simulations. The simulation data are stored in trajectory files, whose format usually depends on the code that produced the simulation.
In this simple example, we read a trajectory file in xyz format. Accessing the coordinates of the particles in a trajectory file goes like this:
from atooms.trajectory import Trajectory
with Trajectory('input.xyz') as trajectory:
for system in trajectory:
print('The position of particle 0 is', system.particle[0].position)Note that trajectories support iteration and slicing, just like lists.
Here we pick the last frame of the trajectory, change the density of the system to unity and write this new configuration to a trajectory format suitable for the RUMD simulation package:
with Trajectory('input.xyz') as trajectory:
system = trajectory[-1]
system.density = 1.0
print('The new density is', len(system.particle) / system.cell.volume)
from atooms.trajectory import TrajectoryRUMD
with TrajectoryRUMD('rescaled.xyz.gz', 'w') as trajectory:
trajectory.write(system, step=0)We can now run 1000 molecular dynamics steps using the Lennard-Jones potential:
from atooms.backends.rumd import RUMD
from atooms.simulation import Simulation
backend = RUMD('rescaled.xyz.gz', forcefield_file='lj_rumd.ff',
output_path='/tmp/outdir', integrator='nve')
sim = Simulation(backend)
sim.run(1000)
print('Final temperature and density', sim.system.temperature, sim.system.density)The forcefield file lj_rumd.ff (available in data/) defines the interaction potential.
Documentation
See the public API documentation for full details.
Installation
From the python package index
pip install atooms
From the code repository
git clone https://gitlab.info-ufr.univ-montp2.fr/atooms/atooms.git cd atooms make install
Simulation backends
atooms has a generic simulation interface that abstracts out most of the common parts of particle-based simulations. The actual simulation code is wrapped by a simulation backend that exposes a minimal but consistent interface. This enables one to develop more complex simulation frameworks (e.g., parallel tempering) that are essentially decoupled from the underlying simulation code.
Trajectory conversion
atooms provides a command line tool to convert between various trajectory formats. The following command will convert a trajectory file produced by RUMD into a simpler xyz format
$ trj.py convert -i rumd -o xyz trajectory.xyz.gz output.xyzIf you don’t specify the output path, the trajectory is written to standard output. This is useful for quick inspection of complex trajectory formats or for piping into sed / awk.
trj.py provides means to fine tune the format of the output file. Type trj.py --help to get a list of options and supported trajectory formats.
Custom trajectory formats
It is easy to add new trajectory formats by subclassing existing trajectory classes. Just create a package called atooms_plugins and add your trajectory modules there. They will be automatically available to all client codes that use atooms.
Suppose you wrote a custom trajectory class TrajectoryABC in atooms_plugins/test.py (the last path is relative to the current directory). You can now convert an existing xyz trajectory to your custom format:
$ trj.py convert output.xyz output.abcRemember to add an empty __init__.py file at the root of atooms_plugins. Actually, the atooms_plugins package can be put anywhere in your PYTHONPATH.
Additional packages
Atooms is composable: it is easy to add new functionalities, and just those you actually need. Additional packages are available from the atooms main repository. These packages will be installed in the atooms namespace to prevent name clashing.
If you want to add your own package to the atooms namespace, structure it this way
atooms/your_package
atooms/your_package/__init__.pywhere __init__.py contains
from pkgutil import extend_path
__path__ = extend_path(__path__, __name__)Add the package root folder to $PYTHONPATH. You can now import your package as
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