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. The development of new methods is greatly simplified when using the data structures and functionality provided by BALL.

Biochemical Algorithms Library

Reference Manual

Version: 1.4.2

Author

Tim Aubertin
Christian Bender
Andreas Bertsch
Lisa Katharina Blaß
Nicolas Pascal Boghossian
Andreas Burchardt
Andreas Crauser
Anna Dehof
Holger Franken
Jan Fuhrmann
Carla Haid
Andreas Hildebrandt
Heiko Klein
Andreas Kerzmann
Oliver Kohlbacher
Hans-Peter Lenhof
Bettina Leonhardt
Andreas Moll
Peter Müller
Sabine Müller
Stefan Nickels
Alexander Rurainski
Lara Schneider
Stefan Schuh
Daniel Stöckel
Stefan Strobel
Marc Sturm
Nora Toussaint
Hongbo Zhu