# Install morpheus with Homebrew

Modeling environment for multi-cellular systems biology. Version 2.4.1 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-30.

## 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
- **Version:** 2.4.1
- **Source summary:** Modeling environment for multi-cellular systems biology
- **Homepage:** <https://morpheus.gitlab.io/>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-30T09:30:23Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- morpheus (alias)
- morpheus-gui (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 2.4.1
## 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

- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/morpheus>
- <https://gitlab.com/morpheus.lab/morpheus>
- <https://morpheus.gitlab.io/>
- <https://morpheus.gitlab.io/publication/2014/01/17/morpheus-a-user-friendly-modeling-environment-for-multiscale-and-multicellular-systems-biology/>


## 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.



## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/morpheus.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/morpheus.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph