PyDMF: Direct MaxFlux and FB-ENM utilities

This package provides an implementation of the Direct MaxFlux (DMF) method for variational reaction-path optimization, together with the FB-ENM family of elastic network model (ENM) calculators and several supporting utility functions.

The public API of the package is intentionally kept small and consists of:

  • DirectMaxFlux

    The main optimization class implementing the Direct MaxFlux method.

  • HistoryDMF

    A container storing the optimization history produced by DirectMaxFlux.

  • FB_ENM, CFB_ENM, FB_ENM_Bonds

    The family of FB-ENM calculators compatible with ASE, used for computing energies and forces along structural pathways.

  • interpolate_fbenm

    A utility function for interpolating energies/forces from the FB-ENM calculators.

Internal implementation classes, including the abstract base class VariationalPathOpt and various helper routines, are not part of the public API and may change without notice.

All classes and functions listed above can be imported directly from the top-level package, e.g.,

from dmf import DirectMaxFlux, FB_ENM, interpolate_fbenm

See each API page for detailed documentation.

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