# Welcome to PresentaBALL

BALL (Biochemical Algorithms Library) is an application framework in C++ that has been specifically designed for Computational Molecular Biology and Molecular Modeling. 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.

Based on BALL we have developed a stand-alone tool for molecular visualization, BALLView. BALLView makes the broad functionality available through an integrated user-friendly GUI, on which you are actually looking. The links below visualize prepared molecular modeling projects on the right window, so that you are able to get a clue of BALL's and BALLView's functionality.

### BALLView projects

- Computer-aided drug design
- Headache
- Cancer
- Leukemia
- HIV
- EHEC
- BALLView demo tutorial

The BALLView project was started in 1999 at the Max-Planck-Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken.

Currently, BALLView is developed by the following teams:

- Prof. Dr. Andreas Hildebrandt (University of Mainz)
- Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Lenhof (Saarland University)
- Prof. Dr. Oliver Kohlbacher (University of Tübingen)

It is available free of charge under the GPL for Linux, Windows and MacOS and can be downloaded from http://www.ball-project.org.