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:
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