xtb VS Q6

Compare xtb vs Q6 and see what are their differences.

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xtb Q6
3 1
525 30
2.9% -
8.3 3.2
about 23 hours ago 6 months ago
Fortran Fortran
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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xtb

Posts with mentions or reviews of xtb. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-01-16.
  • Coordination chemistry simulations
    1 project | /r/comp_chem | 18 May 2023
    Have you tried using GFN2-xTB (https://github.com/grimme-lab/xtb)? It is essentially the fastest method you could use, after forcefields, but is designed as general-purpose tool. I haven't tested it with Zn, but it's worth a try.
  • CompChem Project Ideas for an Undergrad?
    1 project | /r/comp_chem | 24 Mar 2023
    I would recommend getting xtb (https://github.com/grimme-lab/xtb) and exploring some possibilities. The calculations are lightning-fast, so you have a quick feedback loop and you can quickly test different ideas. You can look at recent publications to get an idea of what people are doing.
  • Considering Julia versus Fortran for a project
    4 projects | /r/Julia | 16 Jan 2021
    the xtb and dftb programs are actually excellent example of well-written, clear, modern fortran codes. I've learned more from reading these codes than from any other resources.

Q6

Posts with mentions or reviews of Q6. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.
  • EVB(Empirical Valence Bond) in Gromacs?
    1 project | /r/comp_chem | 12 May 2021
    That being said, reading just the first papers that showed up on google, it looks like Q6 is an opensource software that is based on Gromacs and has a similar input/output regime as Gromacs that is capable of doing EVB. Repo is here: https://github.com/qusers/Q6

What are some alternatives?

When comparing xtb and Q6 you can also consider the following projects:

psi4 - Open-Source Quantum Chemistry – an electronic structure package in C++ driven by Python

awesome-python-chemistry - A curated list of Python packages related to chemistry

nwchem - NWChem: Open Source High-Performance Computational Chemistry

Molly.jl - Molecular simulation in Julia

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msthesis - My Master's Thesis in Applied Math, numerically solving a PDE about light and seaweed!

simple-dftd3 - reimplementation of the DFT-D3 program

DDD.jl - New generation of Discrete Dislocation Dynamics.