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BALL is available for download for various platforms below. We offer both source packages and binary packages for BALLView (Windows and MacOS X).
By downloading the packages below you accept the license terms.
If you use BALL for your research and publications result from that, we would kindly ask you to cite BALL and BALLView as follows:
- Andreas Hildebrandt, Anna Katharina Dehof, Alexander Rurainski, Andreas Bertsch, Marcel Schumann, Nora C Toussaint, Andreas Moll, Daniel Stockel, Stefan Nickels, Sabine C Mueller, Hans-Peter Lenhof, Oliver Kohlbacher: "BALL - Biochemical Algorithms Library 1.3", 2010, BMC Bioinformatics, 11:531
- Moll A, Hildebrandt A, Lenhof HP, Kohlbacher O. BALLView: A tool for research and education in molecular modeling. Bioinformatics (2006), 22(3):365-366
Download the current stable version (1.4.1):
See the changelog for details!
- Binary packages for BALLView
- Installer for Win32
- Installer for Win64
- Installer for MacOS X 10.6 and higher
- Source code of BALL/BALLView (Linux/Unix, Mac OS, Windows)
- BALL/BALLView source code (for build instructions, see this page)
- 3rd party contributed libraries (required to build BALL, if not already installed)
- Library sources for Unix/Linux/MacOS
- Library sources for Windows
- Pre-built contrib binaries for Win32/VS2010
- Pre-built contrib binaries for Win64/VS2010
Downloads of the experimental unstable version, including real time raytracing (2.0-pre-alpha)
- Binary packages for BALLView-2.0-pre-alpha with RTfact real time raytracing
- Installer for Windows: BALLView-Ray-pre-alpha-1.exe
Downloads of the current nightly snapshots, unstable and untested
- Binary packages for BALLView
- Installer for Win32
- Installer for Win64
- Installer for MacOS X 10.6 and higher
- Source code of BALL/BALLView (Linux/Unix, Mac OS, Windows)
- BALL/BALLView source code (for build instructions, see this page)
- 3rd party contributed libraries (required to build BALL, if not already installed)
- Library sources for Unix/Linux/MacOS
- Library sources for Windows
- Pre-built contrib binaries for Win32/VS2010
- Pre-built contrib binaries for Win64/VS2010
Downloads of the previous stable version (1.4.0):
See the changelog for details!- Binary packages for BALLView 1.4.0
- Installer for Windows 32: BALLView-1.4.0-win32-setup.exe
- Installer for MacOS X: BALLView-Installer-1.4.0.dmg
- Source code of BALL/BALLView (Linux/Unix, Mac OS, Windows)
- BALL/BALLView source code (for build instructions, see this page): BALL-1.4.0.tar.gz
- 3rd party contributed libraries (required to build BALL, if not already installed)
- Library sources for Unix/Linux/MacOS: contrib-1.4.0.tar.gz
- Library sources for Windows: contrib-1.4.0-Win-source.zip
- Pre-built contrib binaries for Windows 32 / VS2008: BALL_contrib_Win32_VC2008_1.4.0.zip
- Pre-built contrib binaries for Windows 32 / VS2010: BALL_contrib_Win32_VC2010_1.4.0.zip
Downloads of the previous stable version (1.3.2):
- Binary packages for BALLView 1.3.2
- Installer for Windows: BALLView-1.3.2.exe
- Installer for MacOS X: BALLView-Installer-1.3.2.dmg
- Source code of BALL/BALLView (Linux/Unix, Mac OS)
- BALL/BALLView source code: BALL-1.3.2.tar.gz
- 3rd party contributed libraries (required to build BALL, if not already installed)
- Libraries for Windows/Unix/Linux: contrib-1.3.2.tar.gz
- Libraries for Windows: Contrib-1.3.2.zip
- Libraries for MacOS X (Darwin): contrib-1.3.2-darwin.tar.gz
Older versions of BALL can be found here.
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