Downloading and Running the Application
Look at the Download page for the package suitable for your system. For Windows, an installer executable is provided. On Linux and Mac OS X, you just need to unpack the provided zipfile and run the following command:
/path/to/ego-1.0-RC/ego
Distribution
The following items are included in the package for each architecture:
ego.jarcontaining the applicationlibdirectory containing libraries:lib/imago.jar– Imago Java librarylib/indigo.jar– Indigo Java library, used for rendering the resulting moleculeslib/PDFRenderer.jar– PDFRenderer librarylib/jna.jar– JNA librarylib/jai_core.jarandlib/jai_codec.jar– Java Advanced Imaging library
egoorego.bat– startup script
Binary dynamic libraries are extracted from JAR files and loaded automatically.
Interface
The interface is simple and straightforward. You can open an image (PNG/JPEG/GIF) or a document (PDF/TIFF) and view in in the "Document" tab:
You can scale up the image (or the document page) and select the desired structure with the mouse:
Then you will see the selected structure:
Soon after pressing the “Recognize” button, you will get the re-rendered image with the recognized molecule:
You can also see the application log to know what happened and how much time it took:
The “Save molecule” button brings up a dialog to save the resulting molfile.
The “Open sketcher” button opens the resulting molfile in
MarvinSketch application, if it is installed on your
machine. Ego may ask you to specify the path to MarvinSketch.jar file in your filesystem.