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Burrow-owl visualizes multidimensional nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra, with an emphasis on spectra used in macromolecular structure determination. Burrow-owl incorporates the higher-order spectrum principle, a way of identifying correlated peaks in multiple spectra without the need for peaklists.

The name burrow-owl continues the tradition of naming programs used in structure determination after birds, started by the program Coot. Burrow-owl and Coot are similar in some ways:

• both are free software under the GPL-2
• both draw contour plots with automatic wrap-around and instant recontouring
• both use the guile-gtk library to provide a modern graphical user interface controlled by a high-level scripting language

There are also some important differences:

• Coot is for X-ray crystallography; burrow-owl is for NMR.
• The coot is a water-dwelling bird, whereas everybody knows that a burrow owl lives in a hole in the ground. (Why do you think they call it a burrow owl, anyway?)

What's it look like, you ask? Go to the screenshots page.

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