FATSLiM means "Fast Analysis Toolbox for Simulation of Lipid Membranes". As you can imagine, the goal is to provide ~~the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything~~ a fast and efficient tool to extract membrane-related physical properties from Molecular Dynamics simulations of lipid bilayers. To see what FATSLiM is able to do, please visit the homepage at http://fatslim.github.io/.
FATSLiM is currently undergoing a major rewrite (read it is rewritten from scratch) in progress to overcome some intrinsic limitations. The major goals of this rewrite are:
- To use MDAnalysis`_ as a backend for trajectory and topology files I/O.
- To provide an external API to use FATSLiM as a library so it can be use in e.g. Jupyter notebooks.
- To ease code maintainability.
Please check out the full-rewrite branch to follow the progression.
FATSLiM can be installed using pip via the following command:
pip install fatslim
Alternatively, installation can be done directly from source code which is hosted in a git repository at https://github.com/FATSLiM/fatslim and is available under the GNU General Public License, version 3 (see license). You can then clone the repo:
git clone https://github.com/FATSLiM/fatslim.git
And then compile and install using the usual setup.py:
cd fatslim/ python setup.py install
Finally, it is always a good idea to run the self-test command to make sure that everything is OK:
fatslim self-test
A full documentation is available at: http://pythonhosted.org/fatslim