[OpenBabel-Announce] ANNOUNCE: Open Babel 2.0 Released

[Geoffrey H. <ge...@ge...>]

I'm extremely proud to announce the release of Open Babel 2.0.0, the =20
latest stable version of the free chemistry file translation program =20
and chemistry software library. This release marks the fourth =20
"birthday" of the Open Babel project and a milestone for a stable, =20
flexible interface for developers and users alike.

OpenBabel is a project designed to pick up where Babel left off, as a =20=

cross-platform program and library designed to interconvert between =20
many file formats used in molecular modeling, computational chemistry =20=

and related areas.

Highlights of the 2.0 release include a new conversion framework =20
making it easier to develop new translators, dramatically improved =20
support for merging, splitting, and batch conversion, a framework for =20=

molecular fingerprints, similarity searching, a fast molecular =20
database format, support for Perl and Python scripting "wrappers," =20
automatic support for reading .gz (gzip) compressed files, support =20
for the new IUPAC/NIST InChI identifiers and more.

What's new? See the release notes at:
  http://openbabel.sourceforge.net/RELEASE.shtml

To download, see:
  http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/openbabel/openbabel-2.0.0.tar.gz

For more information, see the project website at:
  http://openbabel.sourceforge.net/

Many thanks to all the contributors to Open Babel. Particular thanks =20
go to (in no particular order) Jean Br=E9fort, Nick England, David =20
Hoekman, Elmar Krieger, Christian Laggner, Chris Morley, and Chris =20
Swain for helping to get this release out the door.

Cheers,
-Geoff=