New lipid topology website

We just opened a new Martini lipid webpage, with even more lipids and supporting files. See for yourself here.

It's insane!

The Insane Paper is out. Read about the background, the philosophy and features.

insane TOC

T.A. Wassenaar, H.I. Ingólfsson, R.A. Böckmann, D.P. Tieleman, S.J. Marrink. Computational lipidomics with insane: a versatile tool for generating custom membranes for molecular simulations. JCTC, 11:2144–2155, 2015. doi: 10.1021/acs.jctc.5b00209 abstract

The DAFT approach to membrane protein assembly

Setting up and running many association simulation is now easier than ever. Check out the new tool here and find the paper here.

DAFT TOC

T.A. Wassenaar, K. Pluhackova, A. Moussatova, D. Sengupta, S.J. Marrink, D.P. Tieleman, R.A. Böckmann. High-throughput simulations of dimer and trimer assembly of membrane proteins. The DAFT approach. JCTC, 11:2278–2291, 2015. DOI: 10.1021/ct5010092 abstract

Announcing the 2015 Martini Coarse-Graining Workshop

Are you impressed by the interesting science done by using the Martini coarse-grained model, and do you want to hear from the developers about the philosophy, back-ground, current, and future developments of Martini? Moreover, do you want to practice coarse-graining skills under the guidance of Martini experts? The Martini summerschool is the place for you!

REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED - WE ARE FULL!

Read more: Announcing the 2015 Martini Coarse-Graining Workshop

Thylakoid membrane

The thylakoid membrane of spinach

F.J. van Eerden, D.H. de Jong, A.H. de Vries, T. A. Wassenaar, S.J. Marrink. Characterization of thylakoid lipid membranes from cyanobacteria and higher plants by molecular dynamics simulations. BBA-Biomembranes, 1848:1319–1330, 2015. DOI:10.1016/j.bbamem.2015.02.025

Interested in creating your own thylakoids? Get the starterkit!

PhD Position available

There is a PhD position available at the MD group on Multiscale Modeling of Self-Assembled Molecular Nanotubes. For details see the announcement.