What is Nanodesigner? The Nanodesigner project is an attempt to
create a software platform for research on nanometer sized
objects. By objects is meant everything that consists of atoms:
molecular motors, biomolecules, a crystal slab... Research
encompasses the construction of objects out of atoms within the
constraints of the laws of quantum mechanics (not unlike the use
of a CAD software package in the design of a building for
example) and the simulation of its dynamic behaviour in an
attempt to find the properties of the object. In the field of
bio-informatics there exists already a lot of software and there
is a lot of competition concerning molecular visualisation and
simulation tools. There are only a few software packages however
that are more general in design and allow to build arbitrary
objects consisting of atoms from scratch as is necessary in the
field of molecular nanotechnology. Visualizing of those objects
is an important aspect of design but the simulation of it's
dynamic behaviour to find th