1 Welcome to the |Gromacs| documentation!
2 =======================================
4 .. TODO : consolidate at least some of the material in the
5 Documentation links below into the new user guide, along with all
6 of http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/Cut-off_schemes,
7 http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/Acceleration_and_parallelization
8 and http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/Performance_checklist)
21 * `Reference Manual`_ (PDF format)
23 .. * Answers to `Frequently Asked Questions <http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/FAQs>`_
25 .. * Coping with `errors while using |Gromacs| <http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/Errors>`_
27 * Links to `tutorial material <http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/Tutorials>`_
29 Documentation for developers
30 ----------------------------
32 The developer documentation currently consists of two parts:
34 * A developer guide that provides an overview of the |Gromacs| codebase, and
35 includes more detailed resouces such as guidelines and information on tools
36 used during development.
37 * Doxygen documentation extracted from comments in C/C++ code, documenting the
40 Some overview documentation that is closely related to the actual C/C++ code
41 appears in the Doxygen documentation, while some other overview content is in
42 the developer guide. The reasons are partially technical, but crosslinks
43 between the developer guide and the Doxygen documentation are provided whenever
44 related content appears split between the two sources.
46 The documentation does not yet cover all areas, but more content is being
48 Wiki pages at <http://www.gromacs.org/Developer_Zone> may contain additional
49 information (much of it outdated, though), and can be linked from relevant
50 locations in the developer guide.
59 * Doxygen documentation
61 * `Public API documentation <doxygen/html-user/index.xhtml>`_
62 This contains documentation for code that appears in installed headers,
63 as well as some overview documentation to understand those parts of the
65 Please note that the definition of the public API is very preliminary
66 and subject to change, in particular for parts that have not been
68 * `Code documentation <doxygen/html-lib/index.xhtml>`_
69 This contains the public API documentation as a subset, but also has more
70 details on the internal implementation of |Gromacs|. This is a good
71 place to start to understand some specific area of the code in general
73 * `Full documentation <doxygen/html-full/index.xhtml>`_
74 This contains every single documented function from the codebase,
75 including internal There can be an overwhelming amount of detail, but
76 this can be useful if trying to find some specific function within the
85 .. _Reference Manual: `gmx-manual`_