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Jmol goes JavaScript

About 10 years ago, I turned the Jmol project over to a series of fantastic lead developers (Jmol programmers regenerate in different bodies just like Doctor Who does).  Since then, the aspect of the new work on Jmol that has … Continue reading

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Jmol grows up

The first of the OpenScience Projects was Jmol, and this molecular dynamics viewer has now reached an important milestone. After a complete rewrite of the code and rendering engine, the Jmol development team has released version 10.. Some new features … Continue reading

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Jmol

Jmol is a free, open source molecule viewer for students, educators, and researchers in chemistry and biochemistry. It is cross-platform, running on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux/Unix systems. It includes a web browser applet that can be integrated into … Continue reading

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10 years of CDK

Today marks (roughly) the tenth birthday of a fantastically successful open science project called the Chemical Development Kit (CDK).  At the time the skeleton of the project was set down on my office whiteboard, I was still the lead developer … Continue reading

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Sad news about Warren DeLano

I just heard the sad news about Warren DeLano, one of the giants of open source scientific software (and the author of PyMOL). Warren passed away suddenly a few days ago. Like everyone else, I’m stunned and saddened by this … Continue reading

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New Software links

We’ve got two new links today in the software section. iBabel is a Mac front-end to a bunch of cheminformatics tools (i.e. Babel, Jmol, JChemPaint, SMARTS-based substructure searching, etc.). It can be found in our Molecule Viewers and Editors section. … Continue reading

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iBabel cheminformatics and molecule viewer

This is an Applescript Studio application that provides a front-end for a variety of Cheminformatics tools. To date these include file conversion (between a vast range of chemical file formats), SMARTS-based substructure searching, similarity searching, list manipulation, overlaying using OpenBabel, … Continue reading

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Making Money from OpenSource Science Software. II. Sell Hardware

This is the second post in a series in which I’m trying to figure out a general strategy for developers of open source scientific software to make a living without closing the source to their codes. The canonical examples of … Continue reading

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Vigyaan

Pratul Agarwal just released version 1.0 of his Vigyaan CD. This is a single CD image with many precompiled tools for bioinformatics, computational biology, and computational chemistry. Just a sample of what’s already there: Arka/GP Artemis BLAST ClustalX Garlic GROMACS … Continue reading

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About OpenScience

The OpenScience project is dedicated to writing and releasing free and Open Source scientific software. We are a group of scientists, mathematicians and engineers who want to encourage a collaborative environment in which science can be pursued by anyone who … Continue reading

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