JOELib is computer software, a chemical expert system used mainly to interconvert chemical file formats. Because of its strong relationship to informatics, this program belongs more to the category cheminformatics than to molecular modelling. It is available for Windows, Unix and other operating systems supporting the programming language Java. It is free and open-source software distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) 2.0.
History JOELib and OpenBabel were derived from the OELib Cheminformatics library.
Logo The project logo is just the word JOELib in the Tengwar script of J. R. R. Tolkien. The letters are grouped as JO-E-Li-b. Vowels are usually grouped together with a consonant, but two following vowels must be separated by a helper construct.
Major features Chemical expert system Query and substructure search (based on Simplified molecular-input line-entry system (SMARTS), a SMILES extension Clique detection QSAR Data mining Molecule mining, special case of Structured Data Mining Feature–descriptor calculation Partition coefficient, log P Rule-of-five Partial charges Fingerprint calculation etc. Chemical file formats Chemical table file: MDL Molfile, SD format SMILES Gaussian Chemical Markup Language MOPAC
See also OpenBabel - C++ version of JOELib-OELib Jmol Chemistry Development Kit (CDK) Comparison of software for molecular mechanics modeling Blue Obelisk Molecule editor List of free and open-source software packages
References The Blue Obelisk-Interoperability in Chemical Informatics, Rajarshi Guha, Michael T. Howard, Geoffrey R. Hutchison, Peter Murray-Rust, Henry Rzepa, Christoph Steinbeck, Jörg K. Wegner, and Egon L. Willighagen, J. Chem. Inf. Model.; 2006; doi:10.1021/ci050400b
External links Official website at SourceForge Algorithm dictionary