Bsoft

Bsoft is a collection of software for image and molecular processing in structural biology and medicine. It has a user-friendly interface. Several workflows such as for single particle analysis and tomography are also supported.

Current Bsoft release supports such operating systems: Unix (Mac OS X, IRIX, Linux, AIX, Solaris, Tru64), OpenVMS

Publications

• Heymann JB (2001) Bsoft: Image and molecular processing in electron microscopy. Journal of Structural Biology 133(2/3), 156 - 169.
• Heymann JB and Belnap DM (2007) Bsoft: Image processing and molecular modeling for electron microscopy. Journal of Structural Biology 157(1), 3 - 18.
• Heymann JB, Cardone G, Winkler DC and Steven AC (2008) Computational resources for cryo-electron tomography in Bsoft. Journal of Structural Biology 161(3), 232 – 242.
• Heymann JB (2018) Guidelines for using Bsoft for high resolution reconstruction and validation of biomolecular structures from electron micrographs. Protein Science 27(1), 159-171.
• Heymann JB (2018) Single particle reconstruction and validation using Bsoft for the Map Challenge. Journal of Structural Biology 204(1), 90-95.