Summary: Biological class libraries

[Walter Koppensteiner <walter # - at - # came.sbg.ac.at>]

 Hi,
 here is a summary of class libraries and other object oriented
 approaches to biopolymer representation.
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 Thanks to all CCL members how sent replies:
 	Konrad Hinsen <hinsen # - at - # ibs.ibs.fr>
 	Gerald Loeffler <Gerald.Loeffler # - at - # univie.ac.at>
 	Joe Talafous <jat2 # - at - # mdli.com>
 	Lutz Ehrlich <Lutz.Ehrlich # - at - # EMBL-Heidelberg.de>
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 Molecular Mechanics Toolkit:
     Phyton
     http://starship.skyport.net/crew/hinsen/mmtk.html
     program library for molecular modelling applications
 Bioperl Project:
     Perl
     http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/bcd/Perl/Bio/welcome.html
     handling of biosequence and alignment data
     current modules: Bio::PreSeq and Bio::UnivAln
 bioWidgets Consortium:
     java
     http://fruitfly.berkeley.edu/biowidgets/
     graphical displays of genome data
 NAMD/VMD:
     C++
     http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/
     Molecular Dynamics and visulatization of biomolecules
 Open Molecule Foundation (OMF)
     Java
     http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/omf/
     several java class libraries and related stuff
 PDBlib:
     C++
     http://www.sdsc.edu/pb/pdblib/pdblib.html
     class library is designed for representing macromolecular structure
 JaMBW: Java Molecular Biology Workbench
     Java
     http://www.embl-heidelberg.de/JaMBW/
 Birkbeck Bioinformatics Class Library
     C++
     http://www.cryst.bbk.ac.uk/classlib/
     object-oriented software library for use by the bioinformatics and
     molecular modelling communities
 SCL (Sequence Class Library):
     C++
     http://Molbiol.grumed.fu-berlin.de/scl/
     C++ class library for sequence analysis in molecular biology
 OTF (Object Technology Framework):
     C++
     http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/otf/
     C++ classes for biochemical application developers
 Democritos:
     C++
     http://gserv1.dl.ac.uk/CBMT/democ/HOME.html
     C++ classes for bioinformatics and computational chemistry
 molbio++:
     C++
     ftp://golgi.harvard.edu/pub/robinson
     ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/software/unix
     C++ library for molecular biosequence analysis
 Best wishes,
 Walter
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 Walter Koppensteiner
 University of Salzburg
 Center of Applied Molecular Engineering
 Jakob Haringer Strasse 3           Phone: +43-662-8044-5794
 A-5020 Salzburg, Austria           Email: walter # - at - # came.sbg.ac.at
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