PLUMED
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PLUMED is an open-source, community-developed library that provides a wide range
of different methods, which include enhanced-sampling algorithms, free-energy
methods, tools to analyze the vast amounts of data produced by molecular
dynamics (MD) simulations. These techniques can be used in combination with a
large toolbox of collective variables that describe complex processes in
physics, chemistry, material science, and biology. Documentation, examples and
installation instructions for the various packages are discussed on the `PLUMED
website <http://plumed.org>`_.



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        .. card:: Path integral metadynamics
            :link: ../examples/pi-metad/pi-metad
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            .. image:: ../examples/pi-metad/images/thumb/sphx_glr_pi-metad_thumb.png
                :alt: This example shows how to run a free-energy sampling calculation that combines path integral molecular dynamics to model nuclear quantum effects and metadynamics to accelerate sampling of the high-free-energy regions.
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