Making it rain: cloud-based molecular simulations for everyone

We present a user-friendly front-end for running molecular dynamics (MD) simulations using OpenMM toolkit on the Google Colab framework. Our goals are: 1) to highlight the usage of a cloud-computing scheme for educational purposes for a hands-on approach when learning MD simulations and 2) to exemplify how low-income research groups can perform MD simulations in the microsecond timescale. We hope this work facilitates teaching and learning of molecular simulation throughout the community.