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  • Print publication year: 2011
  • Online publication date: December 2011

3 - Software development under EMBOSS

Summary

Introduction

Software development and maintenance under EMBOSS is made easy. EMBOSS has powerful inbuilt functionality which any native application can make use of with little or no additional coding, saving you a great deal of effort. It includes extensive C programming libraries for extending the core functionality and developing new applications. Well-defined processes are in place for key aspects such as quality assurance testing, installation, maintenance and support. General aspects are handled by the EMBOSS developers, leaving you to support the parts specific to your own software.

Inbuilt functionality

Major inbuilt areas of functionality include:

Support for biological datatypes

Support for common file formats

Simple database configuration

Command line handling

Command line qualifiers

Sequence and sequence feature specification.

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EMBOSS Developer's Guide
  • Online ISBN: 9781139151405
  • Book DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139151405
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