From: Ola S. <ola...@fa...> - 2005-11-21 22:07:08
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I would hereby like to announce the development of a new project entitled Bioclipse[1], aimed at creating a Java-based, open source, visual platform for chemo- and bioinformatics based on the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP). Bioclipse will provide functionality for chemo- and bioinformatics together with extension points that can easily be extended by plugins to provide added functionality. Version 1.0 of Bioclipse will consist of a CDK-plugin based on CDK[2] to provide a chemoinformatic backend, a JChemPaint-plugin based on JChemPaint[3] for 2D-editing of molecules, a Jmol-plugin based on Jmol[4] for 3D-visualization, and a BioJava-plugin based on BioJava[5] to account for sequence management. The goal is to create a fully integrated workbench with advanced editing and visualization features for molecules and sequences. Bioclipse will be released under Eclipse Public License (EPL), setting no constraints on choice of backend and/or license for third party extensions; it is totally open for both open source plugins as well as commercial. Please visit http://www.bioclipse.net for screenshots and more extensive documentation. Note that version 0.1.1 that is available for download is only for demonstration purposes and is in no way a functional release. On the homepage you can also sign up for one of the mailing-lists to stay updated on the project. If you would like to contribute (maybe you have some algorithm/code/existing app that you would like to integrate or would like to become a developer) please introduce yourself on the mailinglist bioclipse-devel. There will soon be docs on the Bioclipse homepage on how to create your own plugins, and how to integrate existing applications into the framework. .../Ola Spjuth [1] http://www.bioclipse.net [2] http://almost.cubic.uni-koeln.de/cdk [3] http://almost.cubic.uni-koeln.de/cdk/jcp [4] http://jmol.org/ [5] http://www.biojava.org/ |