OpenMMS was developed by Dr. Douglas S. Greer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, a research unit of the University of California, San Diego. Support for this effort was provided by NSF through the Protein Data Bank (Grant DBI-9814284) and the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (Grant ACI-9619020)

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