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Modeller available for Apple Silicon

 

Modeller written in Fortran90 has been ported to Apple Silicon

They used the gfortran that's part of the gcc homebrew package (https://brew.sh/). They see about a 20% performance improvement with gfortran-10 on a 2020 Mac Mini (M1) compared to Intel Fortran on a 2018 Mac Mini (Intel).

MODELLER is used for homology or comparative modeling of protein three-dimensional structures. The user provides an alignment of a sequence to be modeled with known related structures and MODELLER automatically calculates a model containing all non-hydrogen atoms. MODELLER implements comparative protein structure modeling by satisfaction of spatial restraints, and can perform many additional tasks, including de novo modeling of loops in protein structures, optimization of various models of protein structure with respect to a flexibly defined objective function, multiple alignment of protein sequences and/or structures, clustering, searching of sequence databases, comparison of protein structures, etc.

If you are using the Homebrew package manager, you can install Modeller on recent Macs (either Intel or Apple Silicon, M1) by simply running

brew tap salilab/salilab
brew install modeller
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