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Submitted by siteadmin on Fri, 2006-10-13 10:07.

Welcome to the all new MBT web site! We are pleased to launch this revamped site along with the significantly improved MBT 2.0 package release! We think that you will like all the new capabilities and significant performance enhancements to this major new release of MBT. To download the new software for FREE, please click the Login link in the left navigation bar and create an account (this will also enable you to gain access to the full site capabilities). Also, check out the Applications page and try running the new MBT GlExplorer application right from your browser.

The Molecular Biology Toolkit (MBT) is a Java-based protein visualization and analysis toolkit. The toolkit provides classes for efficiently loading, managing and manipulating protein structure and sequence data. The MBT also provides a rich set of graphical 3D and 2D visualization components which can be easily "plugged together" to produce applications having sophisticated graphical user interfaces. Yet, with all of the GUI components provided in the toolkit, the core data i/o and manipulation classes may be used to write completely non-graphical applications (say, for implementing pure analysis codes, or, for producing a non-graphical "back end" for web-based applications).

Citations: When citing MBT, please reference J.L. Moreland, A.Gramada, O.V. Buzko, Qing Zhang and P.E. Bourne 2005 The Molecular Biology Toolkit (MBT): A Modular Platform for Developing Molecular Visualization Applications. BMC Bioinformatics, 6:21.

This project is funded as part of the National Institutes of Health PPG grant number 1-P01-GM63208 and its National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) division.