apbs(1)

apbs1

Adaptive poisson boltzmann solver

Usage

apbs [options] parameters-file

Overview

The apbs command calculates electrostatic potentials, energies, and forces using both multigrid and finite element methods.

Options

At the moment, the following options are supported:

--output-file=<name>

Enables output logging to the path listed in <name>. Uses flat-file format if --output-format is not used.

--output-format=<type>

Specifies format for logging. Options for <type> are either "xml" or "flat".

--help

Display this help information.

--version

Display the current apbs version.

Examples

apbs apbs.in > apbs.out 2> apbs.err

Citation

Please cite APBS as follows:

Baker NA, Sept D, Joseph S, Holst MJ, McCammon JA. Electrostatics of nanosystems: application to microtubules and the ribosome. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98, 10037-10041 2001.

Releases

9 releases since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 5.0
  2. 6.0–10
  3. 11–13

Authors

apbs was written by Nathan A. Baker <[email protected]>.

This manual page was written by Daniel Leidert <[email protected]> for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

From apbs 3.4.1-6+b3 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.