biobb_wf_amber
This tutorials aim to illustrate the process of setting up a simulation system containing a protein, step by step, using the BioExcel Building Blocks library (biobb) wrapping the Ambertools MD package.
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This tutorials aim to illustrate the process of setting up a simulation system containing a protein, step by step, using the BioExcel Building Blocks library (biobb) wrapping the Ambertools MD package.
Basic Info
- Host: GitHub
- Owner: bioexcel
- License: apache-2.0
- Language: HTML
- Default Branch: main
- Homepage: https://mmb.irbbarcelona.org/biobb/
- Size: 34.3 MB
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Metadata Files
README.md
AMBER Protein MD Setup tutorials using BioExcel Building Blocks (biobb)
Based on the official GROMACS tutorial.
This tutorials aim to illustrate the process of setting up a simulation system containing a protein, step by step, using the BioExcel Building Blocks library (biobb) wrapping the Ambertools MD package.
Settings
Biobb modules used
- biobb_io: Tools to fetch biomolecular data from public databases.
- biobb_amber: Tools to setup and run Molecular Dynamics simulations using the Ambertools MD package.
- biobb_analysis: Tools to analyse Molecular Dynamics trajectories.
- biobbstructureutils: Tools to modify or extract information from a PDB structure file.
- biobb_chemistry: Tools to to perform chemical conversions.
Auxiliary libraries used
- jupyter: Free software, open standards, and web services for interactive computing across all programming languages.
- plotly: Python interactive graphing library integrated in Jupyter notebooks.
- nglview: Jupyter/IPython widget to interactively view molecular structures and trajectories in notebooks.
- simpletraj: Lightweight coordinate-only trajectory reader based on code from GROMACS, MDAnalysis and VMD.
- gfortran: Fortran 95/2003/2008/2018 compiler for GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection.
- libgfortran5: Fortran compiler and libraries from the GNU Compiler Collection.
Conda Installation
console
git clone https://github.com/bioexcel/biobb_wf_amber.git
cd biobb_wf_amber
conda env create -f conda_env/environment.yml
conda activate biobb_wf_amber
Launch
Protein MD Setup tutorial
console
jupyter-notebook biobb_wf_amber/notebooks/md_setup/biobb_wf_amber_md_setup.ipynb
Protein-Ligand Complex MD Setup tutorial
console
jupyter-notebook biobb_wf_amber/notebooks/md_setup_lig/biobb_wf_amber_md_setup_lig.ipynb
Constant pH MD Setup tutorial
console
jupyter-notebook biobb_wf_amber/notebooks/md_setup_ph/biobb_wf_amber_md_setup_ph.ipynb
ABC MD Setup tutorial
console
jupyter-notebook biobb_wf_amber/notebooks/abc_setup/biobb_wf_amber_abc_setup.ipynb
Tutorials
Click here to view tutorials in Read the Docs
Version
2025.1 Release
Copyright & Licensing
This software has been developed in the MMB group at the BSC & IRB for the European BioExcel, funded by the European Commission (EU Horizon Europe 101093290, EU H2020 823830, EU H2020 675728).
- (c) 2015-2025 Barcelona Supercomputing Center
- (c) 2015-2025 Institute for Research in Biomedicine
Licensed under the Apache License 2.0, see the file LICENSE for details.

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- Name: BioExcel
- Login: bioexcel
- Kind: organization
- Website: https://bioexcel.eu/
- Repositories: 50
- Profile: https://github.com/bioexcel
Center of Excellence for Computational Biomolecular Research
Citation (CITATION.cff)
abstract: "BioExcel Building Blocks (BioBB) library. BioBB's are built as Python wrappers to provide an interoperable architecture. BioBB's have been integrated in a chain of usual software management tools to generate data ontologies, documentation, installation packages, software containers and ways of integration with workflow managers, that make them usable in most computational environments."
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- "Bioinformatics"
- "Computational Biology"
- "Biomolecular Workflows"
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repository-code: "https://github.com/bioexcel/biobb"
title: "BioExcel Building Blocks, a software library for interoperable biomolecular simulation workflows"
doi: "10.1038/s41597-019-0177-4"
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doi: "10.1038/s41597-019-0177-4"
journal: "Nature Scientific Data"
month: 9
start: 169
title: "BioExcel Building Blocks, a software library for interoperable biomolecular simulation workflows"
issue: 1
volume: 6
year: 2019
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