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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.

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Technical details

Version: 1.8.8

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

Format support:

  • Images: BioRad, Brix, CCP4, Digital Instruments, Digital Micrograph, DSN6, EM, Goodford, GRD, Imagic, JPEG, MFF, Image Magick, MRC, PIC, PIF, PNG, Spider, Suprim, TIFF, RAW
  • Micrograph parameters: STAR (Bsoft dictionary), XML (Bsoft schema), EMX (EM exchange format schema)
  • Sequences: EMBL, Fasta, Genbank, Phylip, PIR, STAR, Text
  • Molecular modeling: Gromacs, PDB, STAR/mmCIF, Text, WAH
  • General modeling: Chimera marker model, STAR (Bsoft dictionary), XML (Bsoft schema)

    • Publications

  • Heymann JB (2001) Bsoft: Image and molecular processing in electron microscopy. J. Struct. Biol. 133(2/3), 156 - 169.
  • Heymann JB and Belnap DM (2007) Bsoft: Image processing and molecular modeling for electron microscopy. J. Struct. Biol. 157(1), 3 - 18.
  • Heymann JB, Cardone G, Winkler DC and Steven AC (2008) Computational resources for cryo-electron tomography in Bsoft. J. Struct. Biol. 161(3), 232 – 242.

    • References

    Bsoft Wikipedia
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