NAME

       apbs - Adaptive Poisson Boltzmann Solver

SYNOPSIS

       apbs [options] parameters-file

DESCRIPTION

       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.

SEE ALSO

       For   more   information  read  the  user  guide  and/or  the  tutorial  found  online  at
       http://apbs.wustl.edu/.

AUTHORS

       apbs was written by Nathan A. Baker <baker@biochem.wustl.edu>.

       This manual page was written by Daniel Leidert  <daniel.leidert@wgdd.de>  for  the  Debian
       project (but may be used by others).