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 JOELib2 logo, which is the word JOELib written in the fictionalTengwar script ofJ. R. R. Tolkien, followed by aRoman numeral 2. | |
| Original author(s) | Joerg Kurt Wegner |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | JOELib development team |
| Initial release | 9 November 2001; 23 years ago (2001-11-09) |
| Stable release | 2007-03-03 / 3 March 2007; 18 years ago (2007-03-03) |
| Preview release | 2009-06-08 / 8 June 2009; 15 years ago (2009-06-08) |
| Repository | |
| Written in | Java |
| Operating system | Cross-platform:Windows,Unix,Linux,macOS |
| Platform | IA-32,x86-64 |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Cheminformatics,molecular modelling |
| License | GPL 2.0 |
| Website | sourceforge |
JOELib is computersoftware, a chemicalexpert system used mainly to interconvertchemical file formats. Because of its strong relationship toinformatics, this program belongs more to the categorycheminformatics than tomolecular modelling. It is available forWindows,Unix and other operating systems supporting the programming languageJava. It isfree and open-source software distributed under theGNU General Public License (GPL) 2.0.
JOELib andOpenBabel were derived from theOELibCheminformatics library.
The projectlogo is just the word JOELib in theTengwar script ofJ. R. R. Tolkien. The letters are grouped as JO-E-Li-b.Vowels are usually grouped together with aconsonant, but two following vowels must be separated by a helper construct.
