Open Babel is a community-driven scientific project including both cross-platform programs and a developer library designed to support molecular modeling, chemistry, and many related areas, including interconversion of file formats and data.
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Highlights include improved memory usage and fixes for compilation problems on AIX, Solaris, Fedora Core, and with the new GCC-4.1 compiler. Several crashes were fixed, and significantly improved scripting wrappers for Perl and Python are available. Support for Cygwin and countless bugfixes are also included.
This release marks a milestone as a stable release
for developers and users alike. Highlights include
a new conversion framework that makes it easier to
develop new translators, dramatically improved
support for merging, splitting, and batch
conversion, a framework for molecular
fingerprints, similarity searching, a fast
molecular database format, support for Perl and
Python scripting "wrappers," automatic support for
reading .gz (gzip) compressed files, support for
the new IUPAC/NIST InChI identifiers, and more.
This version marks the first supported shared-library support for developers and includes a set of command line tools, including obgrep, obfit, and obrotate. PDB and ShelX format support has been improved. Support for atom and molecular spin handling has been added. The API documentation has been significantly improved. Support has been added for the CRK, PQS, and Chemtool file formats.
A wide variety of bugs were fixed. Bond typing was greatly improved. PDB and Mol2 support were improved. Bugs in many file translators were fixed. Other new features include support for isotopes, conversion of multiple structures from the command-line babel utility, and storage of unit cell information through the library and in supported file formats. Support for the ShelX and ZINDO file formats was added.
This release features bond order typing, support for more file formats including CML, improved support for other formats, support for the chemical MIME standards, a slew of bugfixes, some speedups, and a variety of other improvements.
