News
A list of news concerning BALL and BALLView
BALLView goes SecondLife
OpenMol, a project of Helmut Prendinger's group in Tokyo, builds on BALLView to bring molecular structures to virtual worlds.
GCB Best Poster Award for BALLView-RT
At this year's GCB, BALLView with Raytracing won the best poster award.
Release 1.3 of BALL and BALLView
We are pleased to announce the release 1.3 of our molecular modeling and visualization packages BALL and BALLView. Release 1.3 marks a considerable milestone for BALL and BALLView due to numerous changes to the visualization architecture and cross platform support. It now features ~700,000 lines of code and ~ 730 classes.
BALL Git Repository Changes
Several cleanups made a name change for the branches in the BALL Git repository necessary.
Poster Presentation of BALLView Raytracing Capabilities
On ISMB/ECCB 2009 in Stockholm the BALLView team presented some of the raytracing capabilities which are currently scheduled for inclusion.
BALLView-VR Multitouch Setup Demonstration
On the BMBF Foresight meeting the new Virtual Reality setup for BALLView was presented.
BALL and BALLView 1.3 beta 2 released
This release fixes a number of bugs reported in the first beta for BALL/BALLView 1.3 and will hopefully be the last stage in the development cycle before 1.3 final.
BALLView with real time raytracing capabilities demonstrated at official Intel press conference - 3 March 2009
BALL and BALLView 1.3 beta 1 released
After about one and a half year of development, we are happy to announce a new development version of BALL. It offers many new features, has a whole load of bugfixes, and several optimizations.
BALL and BALLView 1.2 released
We are happy to announce the release of BALL 1.2 and BALLView 1.2. The new version of BALL and BALLView provide numerous new features. Read on for more detailed information on changes and additions.
Two BALLView Papers published
We recently puplished an application note in "Bioinformatics" and a full size paper in the "Journal of Computer Aided Molecular Design".
BALL 1.1.1 released
The next release of BALL (1.1.1) has been released. It is mostly a bugfix release, but with a couple of new features in BALLView.
Version 1.1.1 is imminent
BALL 1.1.1 is imminent and will probably be released in late November 2005.
New license model
BALL 1.1 will be the first release of BALL under the Lesser GNU Public License (LGPL).
VIEW -- The next generation
We have just merged the branch of our major rewrite of the visualization code of BALL back into the main CVS branch. It provides a plethora of new features and is the last major milestone before the final 1.0 release. Pre-release snapshots of the new stand-alone viewer are available for download.
