Wizard

After you have started the application, the wizard appears on the screen.

The wizard guides you through three basic steps in which you have to select the:

On the left side of the wizard window you can see an overview of the three steps and on the right side, the current step with the possible choices. If you have proceeded the issues, the membrane editor is shown, in which you can create or edit your membrane model.

Membrane model

In the first step you have to select the membrane model.
You have the choice between loading a saved membrane model in XML format or creating a new model.

Please make sure that the PDB files associated to the membrane model are located in the correct directory. The default directory is /Files.

Protein database

In the second step you have to select the PDB database.

You have to decide, whether you want to load a saved PDB database in XML format or create a new PDB database.

Lipid type

In the last step you have to choose your lipid type.

There you have to decide, if you want to load a lipid file in PDB format or the default lipid type, the lipid di-stearoyl-3-sn-phoshatidylcholine (pc2_exp.pdb).