Bioclipse 1.0 review

Bioclipse is a rich-client platform chemistry and biology workbench

License: Eclipse Public License File size: 0K Developer: Bioclipse Team

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Bioclipse is a rich-client platform chemistry and biology workbench. Bioclipse provides access to many open source bioinformatics and chemoinformatics toolkits and has plugins for the Chemistry Development Kit, JChemPaint, Jmol, and BioJava.

General:

Based on Eclipse
Platform independent
Automated update via plugin server

Supported entities:

small molecules
proteins
RNA
DNA
sequences
alignments

Requirements:
Eclipse
Java 5.0 (jdk1.5 or jre1.5)

Installation:

Download the linux distribution and unzip the archive where desired, this creates a directory 'bioclipse'. Enter this directory and issue command "./bioclipse".

What's New in This Release:
This is the first stable release.
It fixes reading of sequence resources from the EBI database, and does not open a 2D editor when the file does not have 2D coordinates.
It also adds a lot of new documentation, and adds CSS for easier reading.