INSTALLATION:

PLUMED IS NOT A STANDALONE PROGRAM!
In order to be functional, the user must obtain first one or more of the following 
molecular dynamics codes:

NAMD 2.6/2.7/2.8        (http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/namd/)         -free

GROMACS 4.0.x/4.5.x     (http://www.gromacs.org/)                       -free

AMBER 10/11             (http://ambermd.org/)

DL_POLY 2.20            (http://www.cse.scitech.ac.uk/ccg/software/DL_POLY/)

Quantum-ESPRESSO 4.3.2  (http://www.quantum-espresso.org/)          -free

ACEMD 1.2		(http://multiscalelab.org/acemd)

LAMMPS                  (http://lammps.sandia.gov/index.html)       -free

CPMD 3.15.1             (http://www.cpmd.org)                       -free

The directory "patches/" contain specific bash scripts to modify each MD engines in order
to incorporate free energy functionalities. For the correct procedure to use in each case, 
please look at the README file contained in that directory or at the complete manual.
