BALL - Biochemical Algorithms Library

The first alpha version of our real time ray tracing enabled BALLView has just been released. Due to compiler issues, we can currently only offer a Windows binary, which you can find here. 

What is BALL?

Rapid Software Prototyping can significantly reduce development times in the field of Computational Molecular Biology and Molecular Modeling. BALL (Biochemical Algorithms Library) is an application framework in C++ that has been specifically designed for this purpose. It provides an extensive set of data structures as well as classes for Molecular Mechanics, advanced solvation methods, comparison and analysis of protein structures, file import/export, and visualization .

BALL has been carefully designed to be robust, easy to use, and open to extensions. Especially its extensibility which results from an object-oriented and generic programming approach distinguishes it from other software packages. BALL is well suited to serve as a public repository for reliable data structures and algorithms.

Based on BALL we have developed a stand-alone tool for molecular visualization, BALLView . BALLView makes the broad functionality available through an integrated user-friendly GUI.

License

BALL is distributed under the Lesser GNU Public License (LGPL), parts of it are under the GNU Public License (GPL).

Availability

You can download BALL and BALLView from this website here

About us

BALL and BALLView are currently being developed in the groups of Hans-Peter Lenhof (Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany), Oliver Kohlbacher (University of Tübingen, Germany), and Andreas Hildebrandt (Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany).

The full list of authors can be found here