gromacs

Install command:
brew install gromacs

Versatile package for molecular dynamics calculations

https://www.gromacs.org/

License: LGPL-2.1-or-later

Development: Pull requests

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/gromacs.json

Formula code: gromacs.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

macOS on
Apple Silicon
golden gate ✅
tahoe ✅
sequoia ✅
sonoma ✅
macOS on
Intel
sonoma ✅
Linux ARM64 ✅
x86_64 ✅

Current versions:

stable ✅ 2026.3

Revision: 1

Depends on:

fftw 3.3.11 C routines to compute the Discrete Fourier Transform
lmfit 11.0 C library for Levenberg-Marquardt minimization and least-squares fitting
muparser 2.3.5 C++ math expression parser library
openblas 0.3.34 Optimized BLAS library
libomp 23.1.2 LLVM's OpenMP runtime library

Depends on when building from source:

cmake 4.4.3 Cross-platform make
pkgconf 3.0.7 Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit

Binaries: gmx

GMXRC and other scripts installed to:
    $HOMEBREW_PREFIX/share/gromacs

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