Groupy: An Open-Source Toolkit for Molecular Simulation and Property Calculation

Abstract

In this work, an open-source, versatile, and flexible code named Groupy is present for calculating various molecular properties and preparing input files of molecular simulation software such as Gaussian. This code requires only SMILES as input, but can output many new useful data and files in multiple formats. The output information is clear and easy to read. The tips to the users are very detailed and easy to follow when using. Message passing interface (MPI) parallelization is supported to reduce computing time when the properties of a large number of molecules are calculated. Groupy not only supports the calculation of molecular properties using the traditional group contribution method, but also directly outputs the group-contribution-style molecular fingerprints for machine learning. The code has strong extensibility, which can be used as an external library to build other programs. We hope that Groupy brings great convenience to both computational and experimental chemists in their daily research. The code of Groupy can be freely obtained at https://github.com/47-5/Groupy