# Install morpheus with Homebrew Modeling environment for multi-cellular systems biology. Version 2.4.1 via Homebrew; verified 2026-05-19. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:morpheus ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install morpheus ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:morpheus - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Package manager page:** - **Version:** 2.4.1 - **Source summary:** Modeling environment for multi-cellular systems biology - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Upstream docs:** - **License:** BSD-3-Clause - **Source archive:** - **Last updated:** 2026-05-19T21:33:02Z - **Generated:** 2026-07-08T18:08:21+00:00 ## Executables - morpheus (cli) - morpheus-gui (cli) - morpheus (alias) - morpheus-gui (alias) ## Dependencies - boost - ffmpeg - graphviz - libomp - libtiff - qt@5 ## Build dependencies - cmake - doxygen - ninja ## Uses from macOS - bzip2 - libxml2 ## Install behavior - Post-install hook: defined - Bottle: available on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-07-08 - Package-manager version: 2.4.1 - Package-manager updated: 2026-05-19 - Local data: ok - Upstream repository: https://morpheus.gitlab.io/ - info: Release/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories. ## 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 Notes 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. ## Source Database Details - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** morpheus - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 0 - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** yes - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** stable ## Related links - [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata. - [Text processing packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/text-processing-tools/) - Matched text, document, or structured-data processing metadata. - [Developer build packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/developer-build-tools/) - Matched build, compiler, generator, or developer workflow metadata. - [Networking and protocol packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched network, protocol, or remote-service metadata. - [ffmpeg](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/ffmpeg/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [graphviz](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/graphviz/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [libtiff](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/libtiff/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [qt@5](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/qt-5/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [cmake](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/cmake/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew. - [doxygen](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/doxygen/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew. - [ninja](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/ninja/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew. - [allure](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/allure/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, testing. - [artillery](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/artillery/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, testing. - [busted](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/busted/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, testing. - [bzt](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/bzt/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, testing. - [cargo-fuzz](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/cargo-fuzz/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, testing. - [cargo-hack](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/cargo-hack/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, testing. - [cargo-insta](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/cargo-insta/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, testing. - [cargo-nextest](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/cargo-nextest/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, testing. - [msc-generator](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/msc-generator/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: cli, developer, developer-tools, graphviz. - [zoroaster](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/zoroaster/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: cli, developer, developer-tools, testing. - [html2text](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/html2text/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: cli, developer, developer-tools, email. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/morpheus.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/morpheus.yml) ## Sources - Nucleus package database - Geiger risk classifier - package-page enrichment - curated package history - package version freshness - av.db category and tag curation - package relationship graph - cross-ecosystem install command graph