APBS 1.5 CHANGELOG

These are notes for APBS version 1.5

Poisson-Boltzmann Analytical Method (PBAM, see Lotan & Head-Gordon) and Semi-Analytical Method (PBSAM, see Yap & Head-Gordon) integrated with APBS. PBSAM is currently only available in the Linux and OS X distributions.
- Examples are located with the APBS examples in the pbam/ and pbsam/ directories.
- More information and documentation may be found in the PBAM and PBSAM sections of the APBS-PDB2PQR website.
Tree-Code Accelerated Boundary Integral Poisson-Boltzmann Method (TABI-PB) integrated with APBS.(See Geng & Krasny)
- Examples are located with the APBS examples in the bem/, bem-pKa/, and bem-binding-energies/ folders
- Included NanoShaper alternative to MSMS.
- More information and documentation may be found in the Contributions section of the APBS-PDB2PQR website
Added binary DX format support to the appropriate APBS tools.
Test suite amended and expanded.
Removed hard-coded limitation to number of grid points used to determine surface accessibility.

PBSAM not building in windows due to C standard restrictions in the Microsoft compiler implementation.

The following are included in APBS as Git submodules:
Geometric Flow (link)
FETk (link)
PBAM/PBSAM (link)
TABI-PB (link)
To build on Windows from source, the root CMakeLists.txt file needs to be modified by un-commenting out the lines after "#if building on Windows" and commenting out the corresponding lines above.