Resources for


Membrane coordinates


Martini website (neuronal, thylakoid, mammal) - maintained by Siewert-Jan Marrink’s group at University of Groningen

Peter Tieleman's group at University of Calgary

Jeffery Klauda's group at University of Maryland

Jochen Hub's group at Saarland University

Mikko Karttunen's group at University of Western Ontario

SLipids website - maintained by Alexander Lyubartsev's group at Stockholm University

The NMRlipids project - Open Collaboration to understand lipid systems in atomistic resolution

Roland Faller's group at UCDavis

Armen Poghosyan's group at International Scientific and Educational Center of NAS RA

Scott Feller at Wabash College

Helmut Heller at Leibniz-Rechenzentrum


Lipid topologies


Alex MacKerell's group at University of Maryland

Martini website - maintained by Siewert-Jan Marrink’s group at University of Groningen

LipidBook website - mainaited by Mark Sansom's group at University of Oxford

Charmm-gui website - maintained by Im's group at Lehigh University

Peter Tieleman's group at University of Calgary

SLipids website - maintained by Alexander Lyubartsev's group at Stockholm University

Jochen Hub's group at Saarland University

Mikko Karttunen's group at University of Western Ontario

Jeffery Klauda's group at University of Maryland

Luca Monticelli at University of Lyon

Automated Topology Builder (ATB) and Repository - maintained by Alan Mark's group at University of Queensland

Membuilder II - mainatined by Seyed Shahriar Arab's group at Tarbiat Modares University


Membrane builders


Insane - A python script to setup Martini bilayer systems developed by Siewert-Jan Marrink’s group at University of Groningen

Charmm-gui website - developed by Im's group at Lehigh University

Memgen website - developed by Jochen Hub's group at Saarland University

Lipidbuilder website - developed by Matteo Dal Peraro's group at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

Membuilder II website - developed by Seyed Shahriar Arab's group at Tarbiat Modares University and David van der Spoel's group at Uppsala University

Packmol software - developed by José Mario Martínez's group and Ernesto Birgin's group at Universities of Campinas and São Paulo

VMD plugin - developed by Ilya Balabin at Duke University

CellMicrocosmos - developed by Björn Sommer at University of Konstanz


Lipid properties


LipidMaps - A lipidomics gateway created to provide access to lipid resources to the international lipid research community

Swisslipids - A knowledge resource for lipids and their biology maintained by the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics

LipidBank - The official database of Japanese Conference on the Biochemistry of Lipids (JCBL)

Péter Rand at Brock University - Structural parameters of aqueous phospholipid mixtures

Avanti Polar Lipids, Inc. - Physical properties of lipids