mbtools

What is mbtools ?

mbtools is a set of tcl packages for setting up, analyzing and running simulations of lipid membrane systems. This page gives a more detailed overview of the features of mbtools.

All of the pure number crunching required by mbtools is performed by the Espresso package which is a rather full featured and highly extensible program for molecular dynamics simulations. Espresso is developed and maintained by members of Christian Holm's group at the MPIP. You can download the package here.

mbtools comes with a basic set of tabulated forces and potentials for lipid interactions and some example scripts to help explain the syntax of the commands. If you make use of mbtools or of these potentials please acknowledge us with a citation to:

How do I get it ?

Simply obtain the latest version of the Espresso package which includes mbtools.

Help and documentation

The manual and programmers guide to mbtools is now fairly complete. The best approach to getting started is probably to use this as a reference while experimenting with scripts in the examples directory.

Acknowledgments

Thanks go to Gregoria Illya and Vagelis Harmandaris who have implemented many useful features of the package.

Copyright and License

Copyright (C) 2010,2011,2012 The ESPResSo project
Copyright (C) 2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007,2008,2009,2010 
  Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research, Theory Group
This file is part of ESPResSo. ESPResSo is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. ESPResSo is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.