<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>We are pleased to announce the release of OpenMM version 3.0. Both source and binary versions are available from the OpenMM download page at <a href="https://simtk.org/project/xml/downloads.xml?group_id=161">https://simtk.org/project/xml/downloads.xml?group_id=161</a>. Here are some of the major new features found in this release:</div><div><br></div><div>- OpenMM now includes a beta implementation of the AMOEBA polarizable force field. As an easy way to run AMOEBA simulations, a version of the TINKER molecular modeling application modified to use OpenMM is available from the download page.</div><div><br></div><div>- CMAP torsions are now supported.</div><div><br></div><div>- OpenMM now provides an L-BFGS local energy minimizer.</div><div><br></div><div>- The OpenCL platform has been tuned to be much faster than before when running on CPUs. This makes OpenMM into a useful engine for CPU based simulations as well as GPU based ones.</div><div><br></div><div>- OpenMM now provides an XML based serialization mechanism, allowing System objects to be easily saved and reconstructed.</div><div><br></div><div>- OpenMM now includes a Python API.</div><div><br></div><div>In addition to these new features, there have been many other enhancements since version 2.0 including bug fixes, performance enhancements, and improved documentation.</div><div><br></div></body></html>