Bio7 3.5 Released

06.05.2023

A new release 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. Beside other programming tools it contains a feature complete development environment for R with an advanced R editor, R developer tools and interfaces to perform scientific image analysis with R and the embedded ImageJ application.

New Features:

• Bio7 3.5 is based on Eclipse 4.27 (RCP Application)
• Bundled with Java OpenJDK 19 (Adoptium)

Java

• The Java dynamic compiler now supports Java 19 compilation
• The JDK is bundled with JavaFX  and JavaScript Nashorn 15.3
• New plugin dependency for the Java deep learning library deeplearning4j (could be installed later with the Update Manager)

R

• Improved the Rserve connection for Mac ARM
• Bio7 for Windows comes by default bundled with R 4.3.0 and Rserve
• Improved the code completion of the R editor
• Faster editor parsing with updated ANTLR library 4.10.1

ImageJ

• ImageJ plugin updated to version 1.54e 25
• Added new macro templates
• Improved the macro editor

General

• Improved the Bio7 “dark mode” theme
• Updated Windows SSH libraries
• The Bio7 console now supports Ansi escape codes
• Updated bundled libraries (e.g., hardware libraries for serial ports, SSH for Windows)
• Bugfixes

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).
Please note that you have to start Bio7 with Xorg (X display server)  because of JavaFX (can be disabled in the preferences).
For Linux you have to install R and a special compiled version of Rserve.
To install Rserve start the R console and paste the following command, 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 and a special compiled version of Rserve.
To install Rserve start the R console and paste the following command, 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 (sign app locally):

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.