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.

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.

Links:

• Download Bioclipse 2.2.0.
• Bioclipse help (online version)
• Bioclipse website
• Bioclipse 2.0 announcement
• Installation guide
• Report a bug
• Mailing lists