title: A new plug-in software architecture applied for a portable molecular structure browser.
abstract: A new software configuration method using plug-in style components was established for the tool with the incremental development of software used in protein structural study. Our memory database provides the interface of data and functions among plug-in modules and its host program. A molecular structure browser program was developed together with several plug-in modules on our programming library that maintains graphics portability and user interfaces. This plug-in software architecture is generally useful for large-scale software development and for prototyping parts of the system.
authors.affiliation: Electrotechnical Laboratory, Tsukuba, Japan. ueno@etl.go.jp
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ueno
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Asai
mesh_terms: D003196:Computer Graphics; D003199:Computer Systems; D008958:Models, Molecular; D015394:Molecular Structure; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins