MolSSI Education Resources
MolSSI offers 1-2 day workshops as well as online tutorial materials. Most tutorials are hosted on GitHub in the MolSSI Education GitHub organization. Workshops and materials here may still be under development. Outside contribution is welcomed and encouraged!
Python Data and Scripting Workshop
Description: The MolSSI Python Data and Scripting workshop is designed for students who are currently involved in, or planning to start computational chemistry research. This workshop is designed to help students develop practical programming skills that will benefit their undergraduate research, and will take students through introductory programming and scripting with Python to version control and sharing their code with others. NO prior programming experience is required.
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Python Data and Scripting for Biochemists and Molecular Biologists
Description: The Python Scripting for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Workshop is designed for students and faculty who are interested in getting started with coding as part of their teaching and research. The workshop provides hands-on python coding experience using examples relevant to biochemists. It includes parsing PDB files, data analysis, linear regression, nonlinear regression, and plotting data. No prior programming experience is necessary.
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Data Analysis using Python
Description: The Python Data Analysis Tutorials are short stand-alone tutorials, which build on and expand the Python Scripting Workshop. These lessons include introductions to specific libraries including NumPy and pandas.
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Scientific Data Visualization Using Python
Description: This workshop covers scientific data visualization using the Python programming language.
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Best Practices Workshop
Description: Our best practices workshops introduce and promote MolSSI best practices to workshop attendees. This workshop is designed for graduate students, post docs, or advanced undergraduate students. In this course, students create a Python package using best practices and the MolSSI CookieCutter, and host this project on GitHub. Although this workshop is taught using a Python example, the concepts are broadly applicable to software projects in other languages.
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Object Oriented Programming and Design Patterns
Description: The Object Oriented Programming (OOP) and Design Patterns tutorials provide a brief introduction to good software design principles. These tutorials are designed for graduate students, post docs, or advanced undergraduate students. Students will develop python modules using OOP principles and software design patterns.
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Python Type Hints, Dataclasses, and Pydantic
Description: Do more with structured and named data than putting everything into a Dictionary. Learn about Python type hints for arguments and variables to tell users what to expect. Structure data into Dataclasses for functional named data handlers. Leverage validation and the powerful third party tool pydantic to handle complex schema and automatic validation.
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Parallel Programming
Description: These lessons introduce basic parallelization techniques and best practices. There are several examples that cover the topic of distributed-memory parallelization using the Message Passing Interface (MPI) and shared-memory parallelization using OpenMP. Examples are provided both in C++ and in Python using the mpi4py wrapper. Both the MPI and OpenMP tutorials begin with simple “Hello World!” codes and culminate in the parallelization of a simple molecular dynamics code.
View Workshop Materials | View GitHub RepositoryFundamentals of Heterogeneous Parallel Programming with CUDA C/C++
Description: The Fundamentals of Heterogeneous Parallel Programming with CUDA C/C++ course overviews the basic principles of CUDA platform and focuses on the interrelation between various aspects of Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) architecture and software design. The course features numerous examples and exercises and is designed for the audience at the beginner level with minimum background in C and C++ programming, bash and command-line interface.
View Workshop Materials | View GitHub RepositoryGetting Started in Computational Chemistry
Description: A curated list of tutorials for common computational skills that students need to get started in computational chemistry research such as use of the terminal, text editors, and remote computing resources.
View Workshop Materials | View GitHub RepositoryQuantum Mechanics Tools
Description: The qm-tools workshop introduces several types of quantum chemistry calculations a student might use, including geometry optimizations, inter- and intra-molecular potential energy scans, and energy calculations. Some basic file parsing and data analysis is also discussed.
View Workshop Materials | View GitHub RepositoryMolecular Mechanics Tools
Description: The mm-tools workshop introduces molecular dynamics simulations using the software OpenMM, and analysis of simulation results using MDTraj. The theoretical background of MD simulations are discussed, and students simulate and analyze alkane and a simple protein system. This workshop also covers putting code on GitHub and includes an exercise where students implement a new software feature and submit a pull request.
View Workshop Materials | View GitHub Repository| View Workshop Recordingab initio MD
Description: The ab initio MD workshop provides a hands-on introduction to concepts and techniques in computational molecular science through the development of a simple molecular dynamics program using forces derived from ab initio calculations. Students compute potential energy surfaces for a simple diatomic molecule using the electronic structure package psi4, implement and validate a velocity Verlet algorithm, then simulate and analyze the vibrational motion of their diatomic system for several different levels of theory. The workshop concludes with small group projects and presentations.
View Workshop Materials | View GitHub RepositoryQ-Chem for Teaching
Description: Instructions how to use Q-Chem for teaching via the IQmol interface, as well as a selection of computational assignments that can be given to students as homework or in-class exercises. The list of labs includes 10 labs covering different types of quantum-chemical calculations. We hope that this list will continue to grow and would like to encourage the community to submit new computational labs for sharing.
For low-volume users, we offer a free service: such users can submit short Q-Chem jobs (up to 5 min) to the Q-Chem server without purchasing a license (IQmol is automatically configured for the submission to the Q-Chem server).
Psi4 Education
Description: Computational Labs Using Free Software Computational chemistry is an increasingly important part of modern research, and yet it is often not part of the typical undergraduate or graduate curriculum. Fortunately, the availability of free software like PSI4 and WebMO lowers the barrier to introducing computational chemistry laboratory modules. The labs below were created using only free software and are available for use in your classes.
View Workshop MaterialsDeep Learning for Molecules and Materials
Description: This textbooks covers deep learning for molecules and materials with code examples and theory. It starts from ML and works up to modern methods in deep learning
View Workshop MaterialsChemCompute
Description: Computational chemistry software for undergraduate teaching and research. Instructors can request allocations and access a range of computational chemistry software for their classes
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