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+easyblock = 'EB_Amber'
+
+name = 'AmberTools'
+local_ambertools_ver = 23
+# Patch levels from http://ambermd.org/AmberPatches.php and http://ambermd.org/ATPatches.php
+patchlevels = (6, 0)  # (AmberTools, Amber)
+version = '%s.%s' % (local_ambertools_ver, patchlevels[0])
+
+homepage = 'https://ambermd.org/'
+description = """AmberTools consists of several independently developed packages that work well by themselves,
+ and with Amber itself. The suite can also be used to carry out complete molecular dynamics simulations,
+ with either explicit water or generalized Born solvent models."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'foss', 'version': '2023a'}
+toolchainopts = {'usempi': True}
+
+# download requires registration
+local_download_credentials = '?Name=Easybuild&Institution=Easybuild&City=Internet&State=Other&Country=Belgium'
+source_urls = ['https://ambermd.org/cgi-bin/AmberTools%s-get.pl' % local_ambertools_ver]
+sources = [{
+    'download_filename': local_download_credentials,
+    'filename': 'AmberTools%s.tar.bz2' % local_ambertools_ver,
+}]
+patches = [
+    'AmberTools-20_cmake-locate-netcdf.patch',
+    'AmberTools-20_fix_missing_MPI_LIBRARY_error.patch',
+    'AmberTools-20_fix_xblas_missing_make_dependency.patch',
+    'AmberTools-21_CMake-FlexiBLAS.patch',
+    'AmberTools-21_fix_incorrect_dvout_call.patch',
+    'AmberTools-21_fix_more_blas_argument_problems.patch',
+    'AmberTools-21_fix_potential_use_before_init.patch',
+    'AmberTools-21_fix_rism_argument_mismatch.patch',
+    'AmberTools-21_fix_xray_fftpack_arg_mismatch.patch',
+    'AmberTools-22_fix_test_missing_cuda_dir.patch',
+]
+checksums = [
+    {'AmberTools23.tar.bz2': 'debb52e6ef2e1b4eaa917a8b4d4934bd2388659c660501a81ea044903bf9ee9d'},
+    {'AmberTools-20_cmake-locate-netcdf.patch': '473e07c53b6f641d96d333974a6af2e03413fecef79f879d3fdecf7fecaab4d0'},
+    {'AmberTools-20_fix_missing_MPI_LIBRARY_error.patch':
+     '0b89a0624167bc23876bcdefcb1055f591e38e3bd559a71d5749e342bd311acc'},
+    {'AmberTools-20_fix_xblas_missing_make_dependency.patch':
+     'ff25e91fdc72347a778c3837b581e174d6a8c71efa5b46e11391b18bca84fd65'},
+    {'AmberTools-21_CMake-FlexiBLAS.patch': '9543812c24c4b7842f64f1f8abaf2c92b5c4c0fadcdbd9811e76b81a778f0d36'},
+    {'AmberTools-21_fix_incorrect_dvout_call.patch':
+     '1054d4007f5c79126a41582e1e80514267cf406416ed6c471574cd708b16319b'},
+    {'AmberTools-21_fix_more_blas_argument_problems.patch':
+     'c6279b57752239184b942d37f760749494ae0eff95236f3368c76ac0d2726a7c'},
+    {'AmberTools-21_fix_potential_use_before_init.patch':
+     '377e645b5bd2c91ebb4d0b6fbca0407a94289e5ddc5b1e7ed0cb0b0724ad2139'},
+    {'AmberTools-21_fix_rism_argument_mismatch.patch':
+     '14255e5739cec39303df570f06820c7532f7395e1b73b1e4104377984e2c9fc1'},
+    {'AmberTools-21_fix_xray_fftpack_arg_mismatch.patch':
+     '99c954e693659efc2a1d121f91510f56408006f0751d91595f45a34b03364e2f'},
+    {'AmberTools-22_fix_test_missing_cuda_dir.patch':
+     'fb1ab74314d7816169bb9f3f527b78085654aae2825c52cebf50a5760401b737'},
+]
+
+builddependencies = [
+    ('CMake', '3.26.3'),
+    ('pkgconf', '1.9.5'),
+    ('Bison', '3.8.2'),
+    ('flex', '2.6.4'),
+    ('make', '4.4.1'),
+]
+
+dependencies = [
+    ('zlib', '1.2.13'),
+    ('bzip2', '1.0.8'),
+    ('Python', '3.11.3'),
+    ('SciPy-bundle', '2023.07'),
+    ('Perl', '5.36.1'),
+    ('Perl-bundle-CPAN', '5.36.1'),
+    ('Boost', '1.82.0'),
+    ('libreadline', '8.2'),
+    ('matplotlib', '3.7.2'),
+    ('netCDF', '4.9.2'),
+    ('netCDF-Fortran', '4.6.1'),
+    ('PnetCDF', '1.12.3'),
+    ('Tkinter', '%(pyver)s'),
+    ('X11', '20230603'),
+    ('mpi4py', '3.1.4'),
+]
+
+runtest = True
+
+moduleclass = 'chem'