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Some of its most relevant features are: identification of all the barriers and minima of the landscape at once, description of maxima edge profiles, detection of the lowest energy path connecting two minima and generation of transition state theory diagrams along these paths. In addition to a built-in plotting system, MEPSA can save most of the generated data into easily parseable text files, allowing more versatile uses of MEPSA\u2019s output such as the generation of molecular dynamics restraints from a calculated path.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Availability and implementation: MEPSA is freely available (under GPLv3 license) at: http:\/\/bioweb.cbm.uam.es\/software\/MEPSA\/<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact: pagomez@cbm.csic.es<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Supplementary information: \u00a0Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btv453","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,8,1]],"date-time":"2015-08-01T00:40:08Z","timestamp":1438389608000},"page":"3853-3855","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":137,"title":["MEPSA: minimum energy pathway analysis for energy landscapes"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"31","author":[{"given":"I\u00f1igo","family":"Marcos-Alcalde","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Molecular Modelling Group, CBMSO (CSIC-UAM), ES-28049 Madrid, Spain,"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Javier","family":"Setoain","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"2 Departamento de Arquitectura de Computadores y Autom\u00e1tica, UCM, ES-28040 Madrid, Spain,"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jes\u00fas I.","family":"Mendieta-Moreno","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Molecular Modelling Group, CBMSO (CSIC-UAM), ES-28049 Madrid, Spain,"},{"name":"3 Departamento de F\u00edsica Te\u00f3rica de la Materia Condensada and Condensed Matter Physics Center (IFIMAC), UAM and"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jes\u00fas","family":"Mendieta","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Molecular Modelling Group, CBMSO (CSIC-UAM), ES-28049 Madrid, Spain,"},{"name":"4 Biomol-Informatics SL, Campus UAM, ES-28049 Madrid, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Paulino","family":"G\u00f3mez-Puertas","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Molecular Modelling Group, CBMSO (CSIC-UAM), ES-28049 Madrid, Spain,"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,7,31]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023020202424373800_btv453-B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"4273","DOI":"10.1073\/pnas.1301814110","article-title":"Free energy landscape for the binding process of Huperzine A to acetylcholinesterase","volume":"110","author":"Bai","year":"2013","journal-title":"Proc. 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