Bsoft

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Bsoft is a collection of programs and a platform for development of software for image and molecular processing in structural biology. Problems in structural biology are approached with a highly modular design, allowing fast development of new algorithms without the burden of issues such as file I/O. It provides an easily accessible interface, a resource that can be and has been used in other packages. Several workflows such as for single particle analysis and tomography are supported with parameter exchange as well as the ability to do distributed processing across heterogeneous clusters of computers.

[edit] Technical details

Version: 1.4.0

OS support: Unix (Mac OS X, IRIX, Linux, AIX, Solaris, Tru64), VMS

Image format support: BioRad, Brix, CCP4, Digital Instruments, EM, Goodford, GRD, Imagic, JPEG, MFF, Image Magick, MRC, PIC, PIF, Spider, Suprim, TIFF, RAW

[edit] Publications

Heymann, J. B. (2001). Bsoft: image and molecular processing in electron microscopy. Journal of Structural Biology 133 (2-3): 156 - 69.

Heymann, J. B., and Belnap, D. M. (2007). Bsoft: Image processing and molecular modeling for electron microscopy. Journal of Structural Biology 157: 3 - 18.

[edit] Link

Bsoft home page: [1]