lipyphilic 0.2.0

Analyse MD simulations of lipids with python

A python toolkit for the analyis of lipid membrane simultions

lipyphilic is free software licensed under the GNU General Public License v2 or later (GPLv2+)

Overview

lipyphilic is a set of tools for analysing MD simulations of lipid bilayers. It is an object-oriented Python package built directly on top of MDAnalysis, and makes use of NumPy, SciPy and pandas for efficient computation. The analysis classes are designed with the same interface as those of MDAnalysis - so if you know how to use analysis modules in MDAnalysis then you know how to use lipyphilic!

Analysis tools in lipyphilic include: identifying sterol flip-flop events, calculating domain registration over time, and calculating local lipid compositions. These tools position lipyphilic as complementary to, rather than competing against, existing membrane analysis software such as MemSurfer and FatSlim.

Check out the Basic Usage example to see how to use lipyphilic, and see the Analysis tools section for detailed information and exmaples on each tool.

Citing

If you use lipyphilic in your project, please cite MDAnalysis and if you use the Area Per Lipid tool please also cite Freud.

There is currently no paper describing lipyphilic, but we’re working on it. In the meantime, if you like what we do, please tell everyone you know to check out lipyphilic! And if there are things you think we could improve, features you would like to see added, or pesky bugs you that need to be fixed, please raisie an issue on github.

Full documentation

Head to lipyphilic.readthedocs.io, where you will find the full documentation of lipyphilic’s API as well as examples of how to use the analysis tools.

Acknowlegment

The respository structure of lipyphilic is based on the PyLibrary Cookeicutter template.

lipyphilic CHANGELOG

0.2.0 (2021-02-23)

• Improved documentation

• Add method to count number of each neighbour type

• Add functionality to find neighbouring lipids

0.1.0 (2021-02-17)

• Add functionality to find flip-flop events in bilayers

• Add functionality to calculate area per lipid

• Add functionality to find assign lipids to leaflets in a bilayer

0.0.0 (2021-02-08)

• First release on PyPI.