SAMSON

SAMSON (Software for Adaptive Modeling and Simulation Of Nanosystems) is a computer software platform for molecular design being developed by OneAngstrom and previously by the NANO-D group at the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA). SAMSON has a modular architecture that makes it suitable for different domains of nanoscience, including material science, life science, and drug design. SAMSON Elements SAMSON Elements are modules for SAMSON, developed with the SAMSON software development kit (SDK). SAMSON Elements help users perform tasks in SAMSON, including building new models, performing calculations, running interactive or offline simulations, and visualizing and interpreting results. SAMSON Elements may contain different class types, including for example: Apps – generic classes with a graphical user interface that extend the functions of SAMSON Editors – classes that receive user interaction events to provide editing functions (e.g., model generation, structure deformation, etc.) Models – classes that describe properties of nanosystems (see below) Parsers – classes that may parse files to add content to SAMSON's data graph (see below)