Bioclipse 2.2 released

Published by Ola Spjuth on

The Bioclipse Team is proud to announce the release of Bioclipse 2.2.0. The new version includes, apart from numerous bug fixes, many new features.

  • Cheminformatics, with a pure SWT-based chemical 2D editor (JChemPaint) and a lazy-loading molecules table.
  • QSAR, supporting local, REST, and XMPP services
  • MetaPrint2D for interactive site-of-metabolism prediction for chemical structures
  • StructureDB and VScreen: A chemical database with virtual screening functionality
  • The new Decision Support feature with graphical reports using BIRT
  • Semantic web features
  • Bioinformatics, with the new Sequence Editor and sequence alignments via the Kalign Web service (Experimental)

     

    A screenshot from Bioclipse with the MetaPrint2D feature showing predicted sites of metabolsim for a set of drugs in the MoleculesTable.

    Note that Bioclipse 2.2.0 requires a fresh download, i.e. it can not be upgraded to by using the software update functionality. A small installation guide is also provided, but the main documentation for Bioclipse is available from help.bioclipse.net; the same information is also available from within Bioclipse from the menu Help > Help Contents. For general questions there is the bioclipse-users and bioclipse.devel mailing lists. Links: