Preface and Disclaimer¶

GROMACS - 2026.0-dev

Current Contributors: Mark Abraham, Andrey Alekseenko, Vladimir Basov, Cathrine Bergh, Eliane Briand, Ania Brown, Mahesh Doijade, Giacomo Fiorin, Stefan Fleischmann, Sergey Gorelov, Gilles Gouaillardet, Alan Gray, M. Eric Irrgang, Farzaneh Jalalypour, Joe Jordan, Carsten Kutzner, Justin A. Lemkul, Magnus Lundborg, Pascal Merz, Vedran Miletic, Dmitry Morozov, Julien Nabet, Szilard Pall, Andrea Pasquadibisceglie, Michele Pellegrino, Hubert Santuz, Roland Schulz, Tatiana Shugaeva, Alexey Shvetsov, Philip Turner, Alessandra Villa, Sebastian Wingbermuehle

Previous Contributors: Emile Apol, Rossen Apostolov, James Barnett, Paul Bauer, Herman J.C. Berendsen, Par Bjelkmar, Christian Blau, Viacheslav Bolnykh, Kevin Boyd, Aldert van Buuren, Carlo Camilloni, Rudi van Drunen, Anton Feenstra, Oliver Fleetwood, Vytas Gapsys, Gaurav Garg, Gerrit Groenhof, Bert de Groot, Anca Hamuraru, Vincent Hindriksen, Victor Holanda, Aleksei Iupinov, Christoph Junghans, Prashanth Kanduri, Dimitrios Karkoulis, Peter Kasson, Sebastian Kehl, Sebastian Keller, Jiri Kraus, Per Larsson, Viveca Lindahl, Erik Marklund, Pieter Meulenhoff, Teemu Murtola, Sander Pronk, Michael Shirts, Alfons Sijbers, Balint Soproni, David van der Spoel, Peter Tieleman, Carsten Uphoff, Jon Vincent, Teemu Virolainen, Christian Wennberg, Maarten Wolf, Artem Zhmurov

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