Release of chemViz 1.2

[Scooter Morris]

The RBVI is pleased to announce the release of chemViz 1.2 for Cytoscape 2.8.3.  chemViz brings the world of cheminformatics to Cytoscape by providing visualization of 2D structures and calculation of chemical descriptors within the context of a Cytoscape network.  This new release has been extensively updated, including the following new features:

• Addition of the ability to calculate the Maximum Common SubStructure (MCSS) of a group of nodes
• Rewritten 2D structure renderer for significantly improved PDF output of networks with 2D structures attached
• Addition of several new chemical descriptor calculations including the special "Lipinski and SDF" which add several descriptors
• chemViz 1.2 is now "CyCommandized", which provides access to the chemViz functionality from commandTool scripts and other plugins
• Most of the algorithms have been parallized, resulting in significant performance improvements on multi-core machines

ChemViz is available through the Plugin Manager and on the App Store.  For more information, please refer to the chemViz web site at: http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/cytoscape/chemViz/

A Cytoscape 3 version of chemViz will be released in the near future.  A beta version is available by request.