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APBS(1) User Commands APBS(1)

NAME

apbs - Adaptive Poisson Boltzmann Solver

SYNOPSIS

apbs [options] parameters-file

DESCRIPTION

The apbs command calculates electrostatic potentials, energies, and forces using both multigrid and finite element methods.

OPTIONS

At the moment, the following options are supported:

Enables output logging to the path listed in <name>. Uses flat-file format if --output-format is not used.
Specifies format for logging. Options for <type> are either "xml" or "flat".
Display this help information.
Display the current apbs version.

EXAMPLES

apbs apbs.in > apbs.out 2> apbs.err

CITATION

Please cite APBS as follows:

Baker NA, Sept D, Joseph S, Holst MJ, McCammon JA. Electrostatics of nanosystems: application to microtubules and the ribosome. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98, 10037-10041 2001.

SEE ALSO

For more information read the user guide and/or the tutorial found online at http://apbs.wustl.edu/.

AUTHORS

apbs was written by Nathan A. Baker <baker@biochem.wustl.edu>.

This manual page was written by Daniel Leidert <daniel.leidert@wgdd.de> for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

July 2009 apbs