Section: New Software and Platforms

GraphiteLifeExplorer

Participant : Samuel Hornus.

GLE is a 3D modeler, developed as a plugin of Graphite, dedicated to molecular biology. It is developed in cooperation with the Fourmentin Guilbert foundation and has recently been renamed "GraphiteLifeExplorer". Biologists need simple spatial modeling tools to help in understanding the role of the relative position of objects in the functioning of the cell. In this context, we develop a tool for easy DNA modeling. The tool generates DNA along any user-given curve, open or closed, allows fine-tuning of atomic positions and, most importantly, exports to PDB (Protein Daba Bank) file format.

The development of GLE is currently on hold, but it is still downloaded (freely) regularly. We plan to add some functionalities in 2016.