https://github.com/akohlmey/lammps-gui

LAMMPS-GUI - The graphical interface for learning and running LAMMPS
https://github.com/akohlmey/lammps-gui

editor lammps molecular-dynamics-simulation visualization

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LAMMPS-GUI - The graphical interface for learning and running LAMMPS

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/akohlmey/lammps-gui
• Owner: akohlmey
• License: gpl-2.0
• Created: 2025-08-18T02:31:56.000Z (10 months ago)
• Default Branch: develop
• Last Pushed: 2026-04-19T00:50:51.000Z (about 2 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2026-04-19T02:38:43.236Z (about 2 months ago)
• Topics: editor, lammps, molecular-dynamics-simulation, visualization
• Language: C++
• Homepage: https://lammps-gui.lammps.org/
• Size: 34 MB
• Stars: 11
• Watchers: 0
• Forks: 6
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Contributing: .github/CONTRIBUTING.md
  • License: LICENSE
  • Code of conduct: .github/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
  • Security: SECURITY.md

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# LAMMPS-GUI - The graphical interface for learning and running LAMMPS

Please see the online documentation at https://lammps-gui.lammps.org/

## Test Status of the development branch

[![Compile and run tests on Linux with Qt 6.x](https://github.com/akohlmey/lammps-gui/actions/workflows/compile-linux-qt6.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/akohlmey/lammps-gui/actions/workflows/compile-linux-qt6.yml)

[![Build LAMMPS-GUI as flatpak bundle](https://github.com/akohlmey/lammps-gui/actions/workflows/build-linux-flatpak.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/akohlmey/lammps-gui/actions/workflows/build-linux-flatpak.yml)

[![Compile on macOS and build DMG](https://github.com/akohlmey/lammps-gui/actions/workflows/compile-macos-dmg.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/akohlmey/lammps-gui/actions/workflows/compile-macos-dmg.yml)

[![Cross-compile for Windows with MinGW64](https://github.com/akohlmey/lammps-gui/actions/workflows/compile-mingw64-cross.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/akohlmey/lammps-gui/actions/workflows/compile-mingw64-cross.yml)

[![Compile on Windows with MSVC](https://github.com/akohlmey/lammps-gui/actions/workflows/compile-windows-msvc.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/akohlmey/lammps-gui/actions/workflows/compile-windows-msvc.yml)

[![CodeQL Code Analysis](https://github.com/akohlmey/lammps-gui/actions/workflows/codeql-analysis.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/akohlmey/lammps-gui/actions/workflows/codeql-analysis.yml)

[![Build Documentation in HTML](https://github.com/akohlmey/lammps-gui/actions/workflows/build-html-docs.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/akohlmey/lammps-gui/actions/workflows/build-html-docs.yml)

## LAMMPS-GUI vs. LAMMPS

LAMMPS-GUI used to "live" in the "tools/lammps-gui" folder of the LAMMPS source distribution

and the LAMMPS git repository.  This made it easy to build LAMMPS-GUI together with LAMMPS.

However, LAMMPS-GUI has matured to the point, that it is easier to maintain it as a separate

package and make its release schedule independent from LAMMPS releases.  It is still possible

to build LAMMPS-GUI as part of a LAMMPS build same as before, but that will automatically

first download the LAMMPS-GUI sources from this repository.

## Citation

There is currently no citation specifically describing LAMMPS-GUI, but an introduction

is contained in the publication in LiveCoMS for the LAMMPS Tutorials that are linked

from LAMMPS-GUI, so the suggestion is to cite that publication for now:

```

@article{lammps_tutorials_2025,

  author={Gravelle, Simon and Alvares, Cecilia M. S. and Gissinger, Jacob R. and Kohlmeyer, Axel},

  title={A Set of Tutorials for the {LAMMPS} Simulation Package [Article v1.0]},

  journal={Living Journal of Computational Molecular Science},

  pages={3027},

  volume={6},

  number={1},

  year={2025},

  month={Sep.},

  url={https://livecomsjournal.org/index.php/livecoms/article/view/v6i1e3037},

  DOI={10.33011/livecoms.6.1.3037}

}

```

## License

LAMMPS-GUI is distributed under the GNU public license version 2 or later (GPLv2+).