You may contact the current development team at namd@ks.uiuc.edu.

Please be sure to cite NAMD properly in your publications.

Principal Investigators

• Klaus Schulten, Theoretical Biophysics Group
• Robert D. Skeel, Bionumerics Research Group
• Laxmikant V. Kale, Parallel Programming Laboratory

Primary Authors

• James Phillips (versions 2.0-2.4)
• Gengbin Zheng (versions 2.1-2.4)
• Surjit B. Dixit (version 2.4 alchemical free energy)
• Christophe Chipot (version 2.4 alchemical free energy)
• Paul Grayson (version 2.4 GROMACS compatibility)
• Fangqiang Zhu (version 2.3 AMBER compatibility)
• Robert Brunner (versions 1.3-2.2)
• Justin Gullingsrud (verion 2.1 PME and interactive MD features)
• Milind Bhandarkar (version 2.0)
• Aritomo Shinozaki (version 2.0)
• David Hardy (version 1.5)
• David Hurwitz (version 2.0 free energy perturbation features)
• Neal Krawetz (versions 1.5-2.0)
• Attila Gursoy (versions 1.0-1.5, 2.0 design)
• Mark Nelson (versions 1.0-1.4)
• Bill Humphrey (versions 1.0-1.4)
• Andrew Dalke (version 1.0)

Supporting Software

• NAMD is a component of the MDScope computational environment.
• Versions 1.0 - 1.5 are based on PVM.
• Versions 2.0 - 2.3 are based on Charm++ and Converse.
• Versions 2.2 - 2.3 use FFTW in the PME algorithm.
• The fast multiple algorithm is implemented with DPMTA.
• Particle mesh Ewald in version 2.0 is implemented with DPME.

Funding Sources

• NAMD development is supported by the NIH National Center for Research Resources.