Open Babel

Open Babel
Developer(s) Open Babel development team
Stable release 2.3.1 (October 17, 2011 (2011-10-17)) [±]
Written in C++
Operating system Windows, Mac OS, Linux, Android
Type Cheminformatics, molecular modelling
License GNU General Public License
Website openbabel.sourceforge.net

Open Babel is free software, a chemical expert system mainly used for converting chemical file formats.[1] Due to the strong relationship to informatics this program belongs more to the category cheminformatics than to molecular modelling. It is available for Windows, Unix, and Mac OS. It is distributed under the GNU GPL.

The project's stated goal is: "Open Babel is a community-driven scientific project assisting both users and developers as a cross-platform program and library designed to support molecular modeling, chemistry, and many related areas, including interconversion of file formats and data."

History

Open Babel and JOELib were derived from the OELib Cheminformatics library. In turn, OELib was based on ideas in the original chemistry program Babel and an unreleased object-oriented library called "OBabel."

Major features

See also

References

  1. ↑ O'Boyle, N. M.; Banck, M.; James, C. A.; Morley, C.; Vandermeersch, T.; Hutchison, G. R. (2011). "Open Babel: An open chemical toolbox". Journal of Cheminformatics. 3: 33. doi:10.1186/1758-2946-3-33. PMC 3198950Freely accessible. PMID 21982300.
  2. ↑ http://openbabel.org/
  3. ↑ Guha, R.; Howard, M. T.; Hutchison, G. R.; Murray-Rust, P.; Rzepa, H.; Steinbeck, C.; Wegner, J.; Willighagen, E. L. (2006). "The Blue Obelisk - Interoperability in Chemical Informatics". Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 46 (3): 991–998. doi:10.1021/ci050400b. PMID 16711717.
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