2010-08-30

Bioclipse 2.4.1 now on update site

A new version can be found on the update site. The new versions of the features contain the latest fixes. New in this version is support for Jasper reports which are so far used by Bioclipse Decision Support and Bioclipse Brunn for generating printable reports.

To update go to Help -> Software Updates... and select the features you want to install.

Known problem: The splash screen erroneously shows version number to be 2.4.0 after update. (Technical information can be found at bug: 2084 in our Bugzilla)

2010-07-09

Bioclipse 2.4 released

The Bioclipse team is proud to announce the release of Bioclipse version 2.4. The release contains various new features and bug fixes in cheminformatics and drug discovery, including improved QSAR functionality, site-of-metabolism prediction, semantic web functionality, browsing of large compound collections, editing of chemical structures, and numerous bug fixes.

Bioclipse 2.4 is available for 32 and 64 bit versions of Mac OS X, Linux, and 32 bit version of Windows (Bioclipse for 64 bit Windows is currently unavailable, but will be provided as soon as a native Standard InChI is available for 64 bit Windows).

2010-07-06

Bioclipse 2.4.0.RC3 is here

A new release candidate is out and can be found at the usual site for release candidates:

http://pele.farmbio.uu.se/bioclipse-devel/

I have a good feeling about this one. I think Bioclipse 2.4 is really close now.

And as usual, if you download and try the release candidate of course you already know that we love to get bug reports in our Bugzilla. :)

2010-06-01

Bioclipse 2.4.0.RC1 is out

A new release candidate is out and can be found at the usual site for release candidates:

http://pele.farmbio.uu.se/bioclipse-devel/

What is new?
Among the main news are:
  • New molecules table.
  • We are now using Java 1.6
  • Eclipse 3.5.2
  • CDK 1.3.5
And of course bug fixes and probably a lot of other stuff which I don't know about. If you download and try the release candidate of course you already know that we love to get bug reports in our Bugzilla.

2010-03-07

Bioclipse is finalist for the Eclipse Community Awards 2010

Bioclipse is one of three Finalists for the Eclipse Community Awards 2010 in the category Best RCP Application. I am looking forward to going to EclipseCon, it will be my first visit. I have also submitted a poster, and hope it will be among the selected ones (see below or the submission abstract). UPDATED: My poster is now accepted!



Below is the screencast which I constructed for the Community Awards submission:


2010-01-28

Bioclipse 2.2 released

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

* 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.

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