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EMBOSS Developer's Guide

EMBOSS Developer's Guide

EMBOSS Developer's Guide

Bioinformatics Programming
Jon C. Ison, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton
Peter M. Rice, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton
Alan J. Bleasby, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton
June 2011
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    The European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite (EMBOSS) is a high quality, well documented package of open source software tools for molecular biology. EMBOSS includes extensive and extensible C programming libraries, providing a powerful and robust toolkit for developing new bioinformatics tools from scratch.
    The EMBOSS Developer's Guide is the official and definitive guide to developing software under EMBOSS. It includes comprehensive reference information and guidelines, including step-by-step instructions and real-world code examples:
    • Learn how to write fully-featured tools guided by the people who developed EMBOSS
    • Step-by-step guide to writing EMBOSS applications, illustrated with functional, deployed code
    • ACD file development - learn how to customise existing tools without coding, or design and write entirely new application interfaces
    • EMBOSS API programming guidelines - quickly master application development
    • Wrapping and porting applications under EMBOSS - learn how to incorporate third-party tools

    • The official, definitive guide to EMBOSS - learn first-hand from the people who developed the package
    • Includes a step-by-step guide for writing EMBOSS applications, illustrated with real-world, deployed code - learn in a systematic way how to write fully-featured bioinformatics analysis tools
    • Contains practical programming guidelines for using the EMBOSS API (Application Programming Interface) - learn quickly and easily how to write new applications

    Product details

    June 2011
    Paperback
    9780521607247
    652 pages
    246 × 175 × 30 mm
    1.26kg
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • Acknowledgements
    • Preface
    • 1. Conventions
    • 2. Welcome to the EMBOSS developer's manual
    • 3. Getting started
    • 4. Your first EMBOSS application
    • 5. Software development under EMBOSS
    • 6. A complete application
    • 7. ACD file development
    • 8. C programming
    • 9. Programming with AJAX
    • 10. Programming with NUCLEUS
    • 11. Incorporating third-party applications
    • 12. ACD syntax reference
    • 13. AJAX library reference
    • 14. NUCLEUS library reference
    • 15. Resources.