MMAEVe: a Versatile Program for Constructing Systems for Molecular Dynamics Simulations and Visualization

Molecular dynamics simulations are commonly used for the study of membrane-protein systems. Current tools for building membrane-proteins systems are limited in their ability to incorporate multiple protein components in a set-up and their ability to operate using a variety of different forcefields for the lipid component. Here, we present a simple but effective membrane builder, MMAEVe, that can be used to construct massive protein-membrane systems of mixed composition. MMAEVe is open-sourced and available at https://github.com/AppleIntusion/MMAEVe, it is maintained and tested for Linux systems. A comprehensive tutorial and a benchmarking script are included with the source-code.