APBS

Introduction

PyMol currently supports the APBS plugin. See Michael Lerner's Page for more details.

Required Dependencies

APBS and its dependencies like pdb2pqr and maloc are freely available under the GPL. The author of the software however asks that users register with him to aid him in obtaining grant funding.

Installing the Dependencies on OS X

1. First, register your use of the software. This will keep everyone happy.
2. Second, if you don't already have the fink package management system, now is a good time to get it. Here is a quick-start set of instructions. Once you are up and going, activate the unstable branch in fink, and then issue the commands

fink self-update
fink install apbs

or if you want to use the multi-processor version, issue

fink self-update
fink install apbs

Then install the X-windows based version of pymol using the command

fink install pymol-py24

Note that the fink version of pymol already has the latest version of the APBS plugin. You are set to go!

Further details, as well as screen shots, are given elsewhere in this wiki.

Installing the Dependencies on Linux

Ubuntu

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