From: Andrew Dalke <dalke@bioreason.com> PyDaylight 0.5 Bioreason <www.bioreason.com>, a leading provider of chemoinformatics knowledge discovery services. has developed an interface between the Daylight toolkit and the Python programming language and is making this package freely available under the LGPL license. Additional information is available from: http://starship.python.net/crew/dalke/PyDaylight/ and from my MUG'99 presentation at: http://www.daylight.com/meetings/mug99/ The end result is that new chemical analysis algorithms can be developed in a much shorter time and with fewer programming errors. Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language with modules, classes, exceptions, very high level dynamic data types, and dynamic typing. It is a superb tool for rapid application prototyping and development. For more information, see http://www.python.org/ . The Daylight toolkit is sold by Daylight Information Systems (see http://www.daylight.com/). The toolkit includes C/FORTRAN libraries for manipulating molecular topologies, depicting the results, conducting subgraph searches, and more. (We don't get any money from them for promoting their software :) The PyDaylight interface builds on Roger E. Critchlow Jr.'s DaySWIG package but adds a true object-oriented interface layer above the underlying C libraries as well as iterators, automatic garbage collection, and exception handling. We develop all of our applications using PyDaylight and it has been very stable and useful. Since it has been an in-house project there is very little end-user documentation or tutorials, which is why it is labeled 0.5 instead of 1.0. Thus, this release shouldn't be used by someone who doesn't like reading source code to figure out what's going on. However, I would like to know who might be interested in introductory material, so if you plan on using the Daylight toolkit and would like to try out the PyDaylight interface, please drop me a message so I can better gauge what to work on next. Andrew Dalke dalke@bioreason.com -= This is automatically added to each message by mailing script =- CHEMISTRY@ccl.net -- To Everybody | CHEMISTRY-REQUEST@ccl.net -- To Admins MAILSERV@ccl.net -- HELP CHEMISTRY or HELP SEARCH CHEMISTRY-SEARCH@ccl.net -- archive search | Gopher: gopher.ccl.net 70 Ftp: ftp.ccl.net | WWW: http://www.ccl.net/chemistry/ | Jan: jkl@osc.edu <P><A HREF="http://starship.python.net/crew/dalke/PyDaylight/">PyDaylight 0.5</A> - Python interface to the Daylight toolkit used for chemical analysis. (11-Jun-99) -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce@python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------