is otherwise written in a promotional tone . please help by either rewriting this article from a neutral point of view or by moving this article to wikinews . when appropriate blatant advertising may be marked for speedy deletion with db spam . june 2013 atomistix a s was a software company developing tools for atomic scale modelling . it was headquartered in copenhagen denmark with a subsidiary for asia pacific in singapore and for the americas in california . in september 2008 atomistix a s went bankrupt but in december 2008 the newly founded company quantumwise announced 1 that they had acquired all assets from the atomistix estate and would continue the development and marketing of the products atomistix toolkit and atomistix virtual nanolab . atomistix a s type a s industry nanotechnology software founded 2003 in copenhagen denmark headquarters copenhagen denmark products atomic scale modeling tools number of employees 50 2007 20 2008 website www.atomistix.com contents 1 history 2 business 3 products 4 notes 5 see also 6 references 7 external links history edit the company was founded in october 2003 by dr. kurt stokbro dr. jeremy taylor and dr. thomas magnussen . dr. stokbro and dr. taylor are co authors on the article 1 introducing the electron transport method and program transiesta based on the siesta program 2 for academic research . this method and methods used in dr. taylor ph.d. research was the starting point for atomistix first product transiesta c. the c refers to the program being written in the c programming language as opposed to fortran in which transiesta was written . this code had been completely reengineered and further developed into the commercial products marketed by the company today . since the very beginning the company had been working in close collaboration with the nano science center at the niels bohr institute of copenhagen university to enhance the product development and had instituted cooperations with leading nanotechnology centers experts and private companies around the world . business edit the management team consisted of b rge witth ft president and chief executive officer ceo . dr. jeremy taylor co founder and chief technical officer cto . klaus melchior chief operating officer coo and chief financial officer cfo . niels nielsen vice president vp sales and marketing . products edit atomistix a s provided the following products atomistix toolkit atk atomistix virtual nanolab vnl legacy products iview transiesta c these products represented a package of integrated software modules for quantum chemistry modelling providing a user friendly graphical interface interaction to complex computational methods . from the usability point of view the setup of the computation is done through atomistix virtual nanolab a metaphoric interface mimicking in silico the approach of an experiment in a real laboratory . the underlying computational engine is the atomistix toolkit atk which is the next generation of transiesta c. atk also has a python based interface nanolanguage and a text file interface . the methods used in the software products are based primarily on density functional theory dft and non equilibrium green s function negf techniques and also all the underlying quantum mechanics . notes edit http quantumwise.com component content article 6 announcement from the ceo see also edit semiconductor nanotechnology molecular modelling software for molecular modeling references edit 1 brandbyge mozos ordej n taylor and stokbro . density functional method for non equilibrium electron transport . physical review b vol 65 165401 2002 2 soler artacho gale garc a junquera ordej n and s nchez portal . the siesta method for ab initio order n materials simulation . j. phys . condensed matter 14 2745 2778 2002 external links edit quantumwise website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title atomistix & oldid 599634636 categories nanotechnology companiessoftware companies of denmarksoftware companies based in copenhagencompanies established in 2003hidden categories articles with a promotional tone from june 2013all articles with a promotional tone navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 14 march 2014 at 21 09 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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