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Modeling environment for multi-cellular systems biology. Version 2.4.1 via Homebrew; verified 2026-05-19.
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Package summary
Modeling environment for multi-cellular systems biology
Project links
Commands and aliases
- morpheus
- morpheus-gui
history
Project history and usage
Morpheus is a TU Dresden-centered modeling and simulation environment for multiscale and multicellular systems biology. The project page describes it as a tool for coupling ordinary differential equations, partial differential equations, and cellular Potts models in 2D or 3D, with a declarative GUI workflow and a MorpheusML model-description language. The GitLab project credits Jörn Starruß, Justin Bürger, and other TU Dresden contributors.
Project history
A major milestone for the software was the 2014 Bioinformatics article by Jörn Starruß, Walter de Back, Lutz Brusch, and Andreas Deutsch, which presented Morpheus as a user-friendly environment for integrating cell-based models with ODE and reaction-diffusion systems. The paper emphasized model construction in biological and mathematical terms rather than programming code, plus support for simulation, visualization, archiving, and batch processing.
How it is used
In practice, Morpheus is used by computational biology researchers and educators to build shareable multicellular models, run simulations, visualize output, and perform parameter scans. Its package-manager role is unusual for Homebrew: it ships both command-line and GUI entry points, making a research desktop application available through a developer-oriented package manager.
Sources
security posture
No protected-tool coverage found yet
No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for morpheus. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.
Install behavior
- Homebrew declares a post-install hook for this formula.
- Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
- Installs with 6 runtime dependencies.
- Build metadata lists 3 build dependencies.
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executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
morpheus | cli | global executable | |
morpheus-gui | cli | global executable |
freshness
Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-07-08
manager version2.4.1
manager updated2026-05-19
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected
- infoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://morpheus.gitlab.io/none confidence
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:morpheus |
|---|---|
| Version | 2.4.1 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Package manager page | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/morpheus |
| Homepage | https://morpheus.gitlab.io/ |
| Repository | https://gitlab.com/morpheus.lab/morpheus |
| Upstream docs | https://github.com/rnwood/morpheus#readme |
| License | BSD-3-Clause |
| Source archive | https://gitlab.com/morpheus.lab/morpheus/-/archive/v2.4.1/morpheus-v2.4.1.tar.gz |
| Last updated | 2026-05-19T21:33:02Z |
| Pulse | updated |
| Dependencies | boost, ffmpeg, graphviz, libomp, libtiff, qt@5 |
| Build dependencies | cmake, doxygen, ninja |
| Uses from macOS | bzip2, libxml2 |
| Bottle | available (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux) |
| Homebrew post-install | defined |
| Service | none declared |
registry facts
Source database details
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | morpheus |
| Version Scheme | 0 |
| Revision | 0 |
| Bottle Stable Root URL | https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core |
| Deprecated | yes |
| Disabled | no |
| Keg Only | no |
| URL Keys |
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source trail
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This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.
Combined YAML source
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- Geiger risk classifier
- Nucleus package database
- av.db category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated package history
- package relationship graph
- package version freshness
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