Ball (biochemical algorithms library) is an application framework in c++ that has been specifically designed for rapid software development in molecular modeling and computational molecular biology. 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 is currently being developed in the groups of oliver kohlbacher (university of tuebingen, germany), andreas hildebrandt (saarland university, saarbruecken, germany), and hans-peter lenhof (saarland university, saarbruecken, germany).

this package contains the view parts of ball (libview) required for molecular visualization and required for running ballview.