[gmx-developers] standardizing spelling of Gromacs

[Mark Abraham]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 3:05 PM, David van der Spoel <spoel at xray.bmc.uu.se>
wrote:

> On 2015-01-14 14:17, Mark Abraham wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> We've had a few partial discussions of how we should spell the name of
>> our wonderful software. Nobody seems to have strong opinions either way.
>> We may as well standardize on something. I suggest
>>
>> 1. The capitalization "Gromacs"
>> 2. That it doesn't officially abbreviate anything
>>
>>  There is one important objection against 1 and that is history. All
> official GROMACS papers have capitalized the name.
>

OK, that's a decent reason and nobody else seems to care. "GROMACS" it is.

Mark

We don't want to have to explain to anyone what is the difference between
> Charmm and CHARMM, sorry Gromacs and GROMACS when there is none.
>
> As regards 2, we all know GROMACS means many things.
>
>
>
>  The rationale for 2 is that there's no longer a strong link with
>> Groningen (though naturally our colleagues there are most welcome on
>> board!)
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
>>
>
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