01.04.2022

A new version of Bio7 is available. The application Bio7 is a free and open-source integrated development environment for ecological modeling, scientific image analysis and statistical analysis.

Bio7 3.4 Release Notes

General

• Bio7 3.4 based on Eclipse RCP 4.23
• Bundled with Adoptium JDK 17
• MacOSX M1 built available (64-bit)
• Improved dark theme (e.g., Windows 11 support)
• Improved Linux layout
• Updated Groovy interpreter
• Updated general libraries (e.g., hardware libraries for serial ports, ssh for Windows)
• Bugfixes

R

• Bio7 Windows bundled with R 4.1.3 and Rserve
• Improved R editor
• R editor support for  R 4.1 grammar (shorthand function notation, native pipe operators)
• New grammar code completion features
• Improved R perspective layout and layout of views
• The SWT browser is now the default browser for different previews, documents and plots  (for LaTeX, markdown, shiny, etc.)

ImageJ

• Updated embedded ImageJ to the latest version (1.53q18)
• Improved the ‘Detach Images’ menu action
• Added an post activation action for detached views (‘Open All Images as Views’ action bugfix for Windows)
• Improved the layout action for orthogonal stack views (in detached views)
• Added an API method to invoke the ‘Open All Images as Views’ action
• The ImageJ macro action ‘setLocation’ will now change the size and location of detached views if available

Java

• The Java dynamic compiler now supports Java 17 compilation
• JDK is bundled with JavaFX 17 and JavaScript Nashorn 15.3
• Simplified the default Java classpath

Download and Installation:

Windows

Just download the *.zip distribution file from https://bio7.org and unzip it in your preferred location. Bio7 comes bundled with Java Adoptium, R, Rserve and works out of the box.

Linux

Download and extract the installation file from https://bio7.org.
Bio7 comes bundled with Java (Adoptium).
For Linux you have to install R and a special compiled version Rserve.
To install Rserve start the R console and paste the following Github release, see:
https://github.com/Bio7/Rserve-Cooperative/blob/master/README.md

MacOSX

Download and extract the installation file from https://bio7.org.
Bio7 comes bundled with Java (Adoptium).
For MacOSX you have to install R a special compiled version Rserve.
To install Rserve start the R console and paste the following Github release, see:
https://github.com/Bio7/Rserve-Cooperative/blob/master/README.md

To start Bio7 (unsigned) on MacOSX Big Sur and Monterey

To start Bio7 after installation please follow this advice:

https://github.com/Bio7/bio7/discussions/30

Bio7 Documentation

For more information about Bio7 please consult the soon updated Bio7 User Guide.

A plethora of Bio7 videotutorials for an introduction can be found on YouTube.