MEDYAN - Mechanochemical Dynamics of Active Networks

Welcome!

Welcome to the webpage of the MEDYAN, an efficient and scalable computational model for mechanochemical simulations of active matter networks created by the Papoian lab at the University of Maryland. This webpage contains documentation and examples for the MEDYAN software package, which is implemented in C++. The source code for this package is downloadable for scientific use.

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Background

The cell cytoskeleton plays a key role in human biology and disease, contributing ubiquitously to such important processes as embryonic development, wound repair and cancer metastasis. The Papoian laboratory is interested in gaining deeper understanding of the physical chemistry behind these complex, far-from-equilibrium mechanochemical processes. Read more

Latest News

March 2022	MEDYAN 5.4.0 is published. [Download]
March 2022	MEDYAN 5.3.0 is published.
February 2022	MEDYAN 5.2.1 is published.
December 2021	MEDYAN 5.1.0 is published.
August 2021	Our paper titled Membrane-MEDYAN: Simulating Deformable Vesicles Containing Complex Cytoskeletal Networks was published in JPCB and chosen as the cover.
July 2021	MEDYAN 5.0.0 is published.
July 2021	MEDYAN 4.3.0 is published.
July 2021	MEDYAN 4.2.0 is published.
March 2021	Our paper titled Segmental Lennard-Jones interactions for semi-flexible polymer networks was published in Molecular Physics.

Funding sources

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