[Biojava-l] Bioclipse 1.0 released

[Ola Spjuth]

The Bioclipse team is proud to announce the release of Bioclipse 1.0,  
containing a BioJava plugin for parsing and visualizing sequences  
(currently only fasta sequences and uniprot features are supported).

Bioclipse [1] is a free, open source, workbench for chemo- and  
bioinformatics with powerful editing and visualization capabilities  
for molecules, sequences, proteins, spectra etc. The major features  
of version 1.0 are:

* Import and export in various file formats
* Visual editing of molecular 2D-structures
* 3D-visualization of molecules and proteins
* Editing and visualization of sequences and features (DNA, RNA,  
proteins etc)
* Graphing and editing of various types of spectra, e. g. NMR, MS
* Retrieval of resources (sequences, proteins, etc) from public data  
repositories
* Scripting of 3D-visualizations with syntax highlighting and content  
assistance
* PDB-editor with syntax highlighting for working with PDB files
* CMLRSS-viewer for downloading chemical content published on the web  
using RSS-feeds
* Integrated, searchable help-system
* Hierarchical view of molecular and macromolecular substructures and  
calculation of chemical properties
* Connection with external programs, e. g. PyMol

Bioclipse is a rich client, which means it is run on your local  
computer but also gives the possibility to communicate with servers  
for data retrieval and computational services. The powerful plugin  
architecture is based on Eclipse[2], and results in a responsive,  
integrated user interface designed for simple and intuitive  
operations that at the same time is easy to extend with custom  
functionality.

There is much ongoing work with Bioclipse and new features are  
constantly added. Please visit the Bioclipse Wiki [3] in order to get  
the latest information regarding the development.

Bioclipse is available for download from Sourceforge [4].

[1] Bioclipse homepage: http://www.bioclipse.net
[2] Eclipse: http://www.eclipse.org
[3] Bioclipse Wiki: http://wiki.bioclipse.net
[4] Sourceforge project site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/bioclipse/