Bioclipse - an open source workbench for chemo- and bioinformatics in the eScience era

by Ola Spjuth (Department of Pharmaceutical Biosciences, Uppsala University)

Wednesday 14 May 2008, 16:00 → 17:00 Europe/Stockholm

RB35 (RB35)

Bioclipse (http://www.bioclipse.net) is a workbench for chemo- and bioinformatics (e.g. small molecules, sequences, proteins, spectra) and provides 2D-editing, 3D-visualization, file format conversion, calculation of properties and much more - all fully integrated into a desktop application. Bioclipse is equipped with a state-of-the-art plugin architecture, which means it can easily be extended for adding functionality in any direction whilst hiding technical solutions behind easy to use graphical interfaces for end users.

Bioclipse takes full advantage of many of the promises of eScience, like collaborative work, utilizing local and remote (Web) services, integrating various databases and software tools, and sophisticated data analysis prepared for high performance computing. The focus is data and software interoperability, in order to reduce manual work when performing bioinformatics tasks.

Bioclipse is an international collaboration with over 28 contributors, and has been awarded 3 international innovation awards. The development of Bioclipse version 2 can be followed on http://bioclipse.blogspot.com/ and http://wiki.bioclipse.net/index.php?title=Bioclipse2.