I'm pleased to announce the release of little b version 1.6.0.

This is the first official release of the little b console application
which runs on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.  You can find it and the
interactive development environment, bgui (Windows only), at
http://littleb.org/download.html.

We've worked on extending the graph-based syntax for representing
molecular complexes, and on a number of macros which make it much
easier to write models in a concise, readable form:

    WITH-DATA-TABLE, WITH-SUBSTITUTION-TABLE - data-driven code
generators
    DEFCOMPLEX - user-defined templates representing molecular
complexes
    DEF-LOCATION-CLASS - define complex locations like cells with
several internal compartments
    DEF-SPECIES-TYPES - shorthand for defining simple species-types
    DEFINE-CUSTOM-RATE - shareable modular custom rate functions

Misc language features have been added:
    wildcard and NIL monomers - provide "any" and "none" matching for
monomers
    multibonds - bonds shared between >2 sites
                 useful for representing sites which form when two
molecules interact
    many lisp objects have fields - enabling, for example (list 1 2
3).first => 1
                                                 (list 'd 'e 'a).alpha-
order => (A D E)
                                  - take a look at RELEASE.txt for
more info
    b/numerica/ode-translation - generates ODE systems in Jacobian
format
And some bugs fixed:
    creation and destruction actions now work: e.g., {a -> }, {-> a}

So where can you find out more about the new features?
   * The examples library
     This is currently the best place to learn about the new features
     Download littleb - either the console, the gui or the source and
ook in libraries/examples
   * HMS Short Course Materials: http://www.littleb.org/download.html#hms-2008-course
     Especially the presentation: http://www.littleb.org/materials/hms-2008-course/little-b-course-2008...
   * Intro to molecular complexes http://www.littleb.org/tutorial-biochem-quickstart.html
     For background on the graph-based (BNG-like) approach to encoding
molecular complexes

We're interested in hearing about how you're using little b:
http://groups.google.com/group/little-b-discuss

Or bugs you've found:  http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=851502&group_id=169724&func=browse

Or features you'd like to see: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=169724&atid=851505

Cheers,

Aneil

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