[bip] You might find OpenBabel useful for biologists too

[Noel O'Boyle]

Hello all,

Just to let you know that OpenBabel could be useful to biologists too,
especially as more and more bioinformaticians are starting to do
cheminformatics without realising. It could also be very useful to
structural biologists.

In brief, Open Babel is a chemical toolbox designed to speak the many
languages of chemical data. It's an open, collaborative project
allowing anyone to search, convert, analyze, or store data from
molecular modeling, chemistry, solid-state materials, biochemistry, or
related areas.

More technically, it's a C++ library with Python bindings (also other
languages), available for every platform under the sun, and included
in several major Linux distributions. In addition, these bindings are
nicely wrapped in a Pythonic way into the Pybel module.

For further information please see:
   OpenBabel: http://openbabel.sf.net
   The Python bindings page: http://openbabel.sf.net/wiki/Python

You can find some examples on my blog at:
   http://baoilleach.blogspot.com/search/label/OpenBabel

Regards,
  baoilleach