Welcome to the OpenFE documentation!#

The OpenFE toolkit provides a free and open-source framework for alchemical free energy calculations. Using this toolkit you can plan, execute and analyse free energy calculations using a variety of methods.

Useful Links: OpenFE Website | Example Tutorial notebooks | Source Repository | Issues & Ideas

Try openfe in your browser

Curious about openfe? Start here and run the openfe showcase notebook in your browser.

http://try.openfree.energy
Install openfe

Follow our installation guide to get openfe running on your machine!

Installation
Tutorials

Step-by-step examples showing how to use the OpenFE toolkit.

Tutorials
User Guide

Explanations of key concept underlying the OpenFE toolkit.

User Guide
Cookbooks

How-to guides for common tasks.

Cookbook
API Reference

Comprehensive details of both the openfe CLI and Python API.

Reference
Protocols

Details of the specific Free Energy Protocols included in openfe.

Details of Specific Protocols
Changelog

A history of openfe releases.

Changelog

Indices and tables#