Open Babel
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| Developer(s) | Open Babel development team |
|---|---|
| Initial release | 2 June 2005 |
| Stable release |
2.4.0 / 25 September 2016
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| Repository | sourceforge |
| Development status | Active |
| Written in | C++ |
| Operating system | Windows, macOS, Linux, Android |
| Platform | IA-32, x86-64 |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Cheminformatics, molecular modelling |
| License | GPL 2.0 |
| Website | openbabel |
Open Babel is computer software, a chemical expert system mainly used to interconvert 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, Linux, macOS, and Android. It is free and open-source software released under a GNU General Public License (GPL) 2.0.
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[edit]
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 programming library called OBabel.
Major features[edit]
- chemical expert system
- interconversion of many chemical file formats
- substructure search, based on simplified molecular-input line-entry system (SMARTS)
- fingerprint calculation
- wrappers for Python, Perl, Java, Ruby, C#[2]
See also[edit]
- Avogadro – molecular builder and editor based on Open Babel
- Ghemical – molecular mechanics program based on Open Babel
- JOELib – Java version of Open Babel and OELib
- XDrawChem – 2D drawing program based on Open Babel
- Comparison of software for molecular mechanics modeling
- Blue Obelisk[3]
References[edit]
- ^ 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 3198950
. PMID 21982300. - ^ http://openbabel.org/
- ^ 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.
External links[edit]
- Official website
- E-BABEL – interactive version of the Open Babel at Virtual Computational Chemistry Laboratory
- chemCast Episode 003 – project lead developer Geoff Hutchison was interviewed on the podcast
- Design flaws in OELib
