Publication Date:
2012-06-06
Description:
Background: Accurate modeling of electrostatic potential and corresponding energies becomesincreasingly important for understanding properties of biological macromolecules and theircomplexes. However, this is not an easy task due to the irregular shape of biological entitiesand the presence of water and mobile ions. Results: Here we report a comprehensive suite for the well-known Poisson-Boltzmann solver, DelPhi,enriched with additional features to facilitate DelPhi usage. The suite allows for easydownload of both DelPhi executable files and source code along with a makefile for localinstallations. The users can obtain the DelPhi manual and parameter files required for thecorresponding investigation. Non-experienced researchers can download examples containingall necessary data to carry out DelPhi runs on a set of selected examples illustrating variousDelPhi features and demonstrating DelPhi's accuracy against analytical solutions. Conclusions: DelPhi suite offers not only the DelPhi executable and sources files, examples and parameterfiles, but also provides links to third party developed resources either utilizing DelPhi orproviding plugins for DelPhi. In addition, the users and developers are offered a forum toshare ideas, resolve issues, report bugs and seek help with respect to the DelPhi package. Theresource is available free of charge for academic users from URL:http://compbio.clemson.edu/delphi.php
Electronic ISSN:
2046-1682
Topics:
Biology
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Physics
