Outlook
Q-Chem views its mission as facilitating scientific breakthroughs and catalyzing innovation in computational and theoretical chemistry by bringing robust, fast, and accurate tools to the scientific community. It also strives to provide strong support for method developers. These two goals synergistically enhance each other: while users benefit from the latest methods and algorithms, developers maximize the impact of their research by bringing new methods to the broad community of users. However, these goals also pose the unique challenge of maintaining a robust code while enabling experimentation. Q-Chem continues to cultivate close relationships with universities and to develop and maintain an infrastructure for scientific contributors. Communication between developers is facilitated by a Trac site, whereas users can exchange information on the Q-Chem users' forum, hosted by iOpenShell. Recent educational initiatives include workshops for users and developers.
Q-Chem is an open-source platform for its developers. It welcomes new contributions and recognizes them through acknowledgments on its website and inclusion on the author list of Q-Chem papers, and also distributes more than 15% of its income as royalties.
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