CCL: ANNOUNCE: Open Babel 2.0 Released

[Geoffrey Hutchison <grh25*_*cornell.edu>]

 Sent to CCL by: Geoffrey Hutchison [grh25/a\cornell.edu]
I had a slightly different e-mail written for the CCL readers. I
 won't fill your e-mail, so I'll include a small addendum to the
 announcement that Dr. Leitl forwarded.
Open Babel is largely volunteer project. It is free, open source
 chemistry software provided for the community at large. Besides
 converting between a range of computational chemistry (and other)
 file formats, the code library makes it easy to develop C++ chemistry
 programs. A range of examples is provided, including "obgrep"
 for
 SMARTS searching any file readable by Open Babel, "obfit"
 which can
 batch-align molecules by SMARTS patterns, and the new 2.0 release
 adds support for Python and Perl scripting.
 Again, check Open Babel website for release notes and more information:
 http://openbabel.sourceforge.net/
Open Babel is also a proud member of the Blue Obelisk movement, a
 collection of free and open source chemistry projects working
 together to produce better science and better software.
 http://www.blueobelisk.org/
 Cheers,
 -Geoff
 --
 -Dr. Geoffrey Hutchison        <grh25() cornell.edu>
 Cornell University, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
 Abruña Group                http://abruna.chem.cornell.edu/
 On Nov 27, 2005, at 5:16 AM, Eugen Leitl eugen::leitl.org wrote:
>  Sent to CCL by: Eugen Leitl [eugen++leitl.org]
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>  Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 20:12:53 -0500
> To: OpenBabel discussion list <openbabel-discuss-.-
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>  Subject: [OpenBabel-Announce] ANNOUNCE: Open Babel 2.0 Released
>  I'm extremely proud to announce the release of Open Babel 2.0.0, the
>  latest stable version of the free chemistry file translation program
>  and chemistry software library. This release marks the fourth
>  "birthday" of the Open Babel project and a milestone for a stable,
>  flexible interface for developers and users alike.
>  OpenBabel is a project designed to pick up where Babel left off, as a
>  cross-platform program and library designed to interconvert between
>  many file formats used in molecular modeling, computational chemistry
>  and related areas.
>  Highlights of the 2.0 release include a new conversion framework
>  making it easier to develop new translators, dramatically improved
>  support for merging, splitting, and batch conversion, a framework for
>  molecular fingerprints, similarity searching, a fast molecular
>  database format, support for Perl and Python scripting "wrappers,"
>  automatic support for reading .gz (gzip) compressed files, support
>  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
>  go to (in no particular order) Jean Br?fort, Nick England, David
>  Hoekman, Elmar Krieger, Christian Laggner, Chris Morley, and Chris
>  Swain for helping to get this release out the door.
>  Cheers,
>  -Geoff
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