Membrainy is an intelligent membrane analysis tool that endeavours to provide a wide
range of analytical techniques to enable the measurement of various membrane-specific properties from planar bilayer trajectories. Membrainy is primarily designed to work with GROMACS xtc/trr/tpr/cpt/gro and pdb trajectory files, and is capable of measuring:
- 2D surface maps
- Annular shell lipid analysis
- Area per lipid
- Bilayer/leaflet thickness
- Gel percentage
- Headgroup orientation
- Lipid mixing/demixing entropy
- Lipid order parameters
- Time evolution of the TMV
Membrainy contains an internal library of common lipids parameterized for CHARMM, Berger/GROMOS87 and Martini v2.0 for your convenience, and is capable interpreting single, double and asymmetric bilayers. For lipids not found in the internal library, you can now import your own lipids using an external library. See the
tutorial for details.
Please refer to the
readme for further information and instructions.
The latest version of Membrainy can be downloaded here:
Or visit the
downloads page. You can find our publication
here, and please cite:
Matthew Carr and Cait E. MacPhee. Membrainy: a 'smart', unified membrane analysis tool. Source Code for Biology and Medicine, (1):3+, March 2015.
For a tutorial on using Membrainy with provided example trajectories, please visit our
tutorial page
If you encounter any bugs, issues, or have any questions, please contact support@membrainy.net and we will be happy to assist. We also appreciate any feedback to help us improve Membrainy.
