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Membrainy: a ‘smart’, unified membrane analysis tool

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Title
Membrainy: a ‘smart’, unified membrane analysis tool
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Source Code for Biology and Medicine, March 2015
DOI 10.1186/s13029-015-0033-7
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Matthew Carr, Cait E MacPhee

Abstract

The study of biological membranes using Molecular Dynamics has become an increasingly popular means by which to investigate the interactions of proteins, peptides and potentials with lipid bilayers. These interactions often result in changes to the properties of the lipids which can modify the behaviour of the membrane. Membrainy is a unified membrane analysis tool that contains a broad spectrum of analytical techniques to enable: measurement of acyl chain order parameters; presentation of 2D surface and thickness maps; determination of lateral and axial headgroup orientations; measurement of bilayer and leaflet thickness; analysis of the annular shell surrounding membrane-embedded objects; quantification of gel percentage; time evolution of the transmembrane voltage; area per lipid calculations; and quantification of lipid mixing/demixing entropy. Each analytical component within Membrainy has been tested on a variety of lipid bilayer systems and was found to be either comparable to or an improvement upon existing software. For the analytical techniques that have no direct comparable software, our results were confirmed with experimental data. Membrainy is a user-friendly, intelligent membrane analysis tool that automatically interprets a variety of input formats and force fields, is compatible with both single and double bilayers, and capable of handling asymmetric bilayers and lipid flip-flopping. Membrainy has been designed for ease of use, requiring no installation or configuration and minimal user-input to operate.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 15 28%
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 21%
Student > Master 6 11%
Student > Bachelor 4 8%
Professor > Associate Professor 2 4%
Other 5 9%
Unknown 10 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 9 17%
Chemistry 9 17%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 7 13%
Physics and Astronomy 4 8%
Computer Science 3 6%
Other 10 19%
Unknown 11 21%
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