A new plug-in software architecture applied for a portable molecular structure browser.
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.
Ueno
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Electrotechnical Laboratory, Tsukuba, Japan. ueno@etl.go.jp
Asai
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D003196:Computer Graphics; D003199:Computer Systems; D008958:Models, Molecular; D015394:Molecular Structure; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface
D011506:Proteins