A New Plug-in Software Architecture Applied for a Portable Molecular Structure Browser

Proceedings Of The Fifth International Conference On Intelligent Systems For Molecular Biology

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Proceedings Of The Fifth International Conference On Intelligent Systems For Molecular Biology

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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.